Powershell output as array

Question

Hello i have powershell command that looks like this.

$result = Add-SPOSiteScript -Title "Create customer tracking list" -Content $site_script -Description "Creates list for tracking customer contact information" | Out-String

And output like this

Id                  : xxx69add-xxd1-xx43-xxba-xxcd2fac8790
Title               : Create customer tracking list
Description         : Creates list for tracking customer contact information
Content             : xxx
Version             : 0
IsSiteScriptPackage : False

What I want to do is to take Id somehow from it but I don't know-how. I don't know how to output this as an array so i can use $result[0] or any other way how to extract it.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Out-String turns all the input into a string, so not very useful here.

Either enclose the expression in parentheses and reference the Id parameter with the . member access operator:

$result = (Add-SPOSiteScript -Title "Create customer tracking list" -Content $site_script -Description "Creates list for tracking customer contact information").Id

Or grab the Id property value with Select-Object:

$result = Add-SPOSiteScript -Title "Create customer tracking list" -Content $site_script -Description "Creates list for tracking customer contact information" |Select-Object -ExpandProperty Id

... or by using ForEach-Object member invocation:

$result = Add-SPOSiteScript -Title "Create customer tracking list" -Content $site_script -Description "Creates list for tracking customer contact information" |ForEach-Object Id