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    I have an object that's beeing piped to a Select-Object and then piped to an Out-GridView.

    In one of the columns there is data that's hard for the end user to understand. So, I'd like to set up a condition to what's printed out in the Out-GridView.

    Like: "IF text = '2jk4h52kljh' THEN output = 'Hello!' ELSEIF text = 'h42klj5h2345' THEN output = 'Goodbye!' ELSE output = 'nothing'" in just one specific column.


    Can't get the hang of it, anyone have any ideas?


    //Daniel

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    Friday, September 29, 2017 12:29 PM
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    Hi Daniel,

    you can do this with a slightly non-standard hashtable:

    $select_conditional = @{
	N = "Text"
	E   = {
		if ($_.Text -eq '2jk4h52kljh') { 'Hello!' }
		elseif ($_.Text -eq 'h42klj5h2345') { 'Goodbye!' }
		else { 'nothing' }
	}
}
$object | Select Foo, Bar, $select-conditional | ogv

    Cheers,
    Fred

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    Friday, September 29, 2017 12:34 PM
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    Great! Thanks Fred.

    Almost there! Suppose that column "Bar" (as the one in 'Select Foo, Bar, ...) is the column containing the data I want to compare and manipulate, is it just to change the N = "Text" to N = $_.Bar?

    //Daniel

    Friday, September 29, 2017 1:18 PM
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    Hi Daniel,

    not quite. That hashtable has two segments: N (Name) and E (Expression). The N part is the new name of the property. You'd be replacing all instances of $_.Text with $_.Bar within the E (Expression) part of the Hashtable.

    Basically, with that, for each object you pipe to Select-Object, it will run the code in E and add it to the object as the value of the property named as the text in N.

    Cheers,
    Fred

    Example:

    $select_conditional = @{
	N = "Text"
	E   = {
		if ($_.Bar -eq '2jk4h52kljh') { 'Hello!' }
		elseif ($_.Bar -eq 'h42klj5h2345') { 'Goodbye!' }
		else { 'nothing' }
	}
}
$object | Select Foo, Bar, $select-conditional | ogv

    PS: You are of course totally free to set the name to any legal property name.

    There's no place like 127.0.0.1

    Friday, September 29, 2017 1:25 PM
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    OK! Thanks a bunch.

    Even so, I still get nothing but 'nothing' in my column. I'm guessing that the content is'nt actually a string but something else. The object that I'm getting is Get-MsolUser (from our Office 365 subscription) and the data I'm trying to get hold of is the license data to each MsolUser. Some users has a standard Exchange license and some has the O365 Business license as well.

    My idea was to -match the content with a known part of the content and print out 'Exchange' or 'Office'.

    So, I'm guessing that an output that looks like {account:O365_BUSINESS, account:EXCHANGESTANDARD} in fact is some kind of array(?) that has to be handeled right?

    //Daniel

    Friday, September 29, 2017 1:41 PM
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    Looks like it, yes.

    You can cheat it, if you want to, but handling the actual content would be more reliable.

    # Cheating like hell
$select_conditional = @{
	N = "Text"
	E   = {
		if ($_.Bar.ToString() -like '*2jk4h52kljh*') { 'Hello!' }
		elseif ($_.Bar.ToString() -like '*h42klj5h2345*') { 'Goodbye!' }
		else { 'nothing' }
	}
}
$object | Select Foo, Bar, $select_conditional | ogv

    Cheers,
    Fred

    There's no place like 127.0.0.1

    Friday, September 29, 2017 1:53 PM
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