Powershell: Take items from an array and assign variables to them

Question

I'm trying to extract the GUIDS from this list.

Get-WMIObject WIN32_Product | ? {$_.IdentifyingNumber -like "*26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F8321*FF*"} | Format-List IdentifyingNumber

is it possible to convert each item into a string and possibly assign them to variables?

Here's what I was trying, but it's not working. but maybe this will show the logic i am trying:

$A = Get-WMIObject WIN32_Product | ? {$_.IdentifyingNumber -like "*26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F8321*FF*"} | Format-List IdentifyingNumber

$GUIDList = ForEach-Object{$A.ToString()}

$GUIDList

manojlds · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-26 17:45:41Z

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Format-list is, as the name suggests, for display formatting purposes.

Based on your usage, I suppose you can use Select-Object instead:

| Select-Object IdentifyingNumber

After that you will have an array of objects with property IdentifyingNumbers.

If you just want array /list of strings ( assuming the property is string ) you could do:

| Select-Object -expand IdentifyingNumber

answered Aug 26, 2012 at 17:45

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Wow... I didn't realize it was that easy! Thank you so much for the response!

Shay Levy · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-26 19:31:51Z

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Here's another useful option that uses a WQL filter and uses the Foreach-Object cmdlet to extract the identifiers:

Get-WmiObject Win32_Product -Filter "IdentifyingNumber LIKE "%26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F8321%FF%"} | 
Foreach-Object {$_.IdentifyingNumber}

answered Aug 26, 2012 at 19:31

Shay Levy

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