Array or Database or ??

Dear,

I am confused about the different posibilities of storing information in
powershell. I am not a programmer more of a consultant doing some sysadmin
tasks from time to time in projects.

right now I have created a script that will display a form with a dropdown
box where i can select a certain "profile" let's say. My idea is that once
the confirmation is hit I get the index number out of the listbox and
retrieve my information from a pre-built datalist.

However how should I construct such a data list containing multiple rows and
multiple columns ?

The results I am after is what you get after doing an import-csv. Basically
you get an object which is indexed and has multiple properties.

I've looked at creating my own custom object with multiple properties but I
have no clue how to add data to it?

I've been going at it for too long now and it's pretty late here in belgium
so my mail might not make a lot of sense :-)

Sincerely,
Tonino Bruno
Belgium

> I've looked at creating my own custom object with multiple properties but I
> have no clue how to add data to it?

I have an example here of creating your own object:
http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2007/0...s-example.html

I was mostly inspired by this post:
http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/po...baby-name.aspx

Marco

I was doing something similar myself recently so I wrote a handy function
for converting a collection of hashtables into objects:

function Convert-HashToObject
{
$($args; $input) | foreach {
$map = $_.psbase.keys |
foreach {
@{
name="$_"
expression=$executioncontext.InvokeCommand.NewScriptBlock(
"`$_.$_")
}
}

$_ | select $map
}
}

This funciton takes advantage of Select-Object's ability to create new
psobjects from descriptions. Here's an example of how to use the function.
First a collection of hash tables:

PS (3) > @{a=1;b=2;c=3},@{a=11;b=22;c=33}

Name Value
---- -----
a 1
b 2
c 3
a 11
b 22
c 33

and now convert that collection to PSObjects:

PS (4) > @{a=1;b=2;c=3},@{a=11;b=22;c=33} | Convert-HashToObject

a b
c
- -
-
1 2
3
11 22
33


-bruce

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"Marco Shaw" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>> I've looked at creating my own custom object with multiple properties but
>> I have no clue how to add data to it?
>
> I have an example here of creating your own object:
> http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2007/0...s-example.html
>
> I was mostly inspired by this post:
> http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/po...baby-name.aspx
>
> Marco