Vista - Location an Array Element

Hi all,

I have an array with various bits of information, including name phone
number office location etc. If I search the array looking for a Name, how do
I retrieve the array index of that element.

For example:
$MyArray | foreach{if ($_.name -like "*tim*"){output the array index of
this element}}

Thanks.
--
Tim.

You can do this by using your own array index reference 'en route' eg....

#--------------
$p = Get-Process
$p | foreach {$i=-1}{$i=$i+1;If ($_.Name -eq 'Powershell') {$i}}
#--------------



PS (1) > $p = Get-Process
PS (2) > $p | foreach {$i=-1}{$i=$i+1;If ($_.Name -eq 'Powershell') {$i}}
16
17
PS (3) > $p[16]

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- -----------
482 15 40908 34076 229 3932 powershell

--
Jon


"Tim Munro" <Excelsior@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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# pipe available indices to Where-Object
$indices = 0..($MyArray.count-1) | ? {$MyArray[$_].name -like '*tim*'}
# these are the indices
$indices
# verify
$MyArray[$indices]

--
Kiron

Very slick Kiron, thanks.

Thanks to all who responded.

--
Tim.

"Kiron" <Kiron@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's a reusable function.

function Search-List {
param ( [ScriptBlock] $Predicate )
begin { $i = 0 }
process { if ( &$Predicate ) { $i }; $i += 1 }
end { }
}

dir | Search-List { $_ -is [System.IO.DirectoryInfo] }
0
1

Josh Einstein

"Tim Munro" <Excelsior@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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