So I have a powershell issue that seems like it should be simple to resolve, but I am having trouble figuring it out myself.
Take for instance the following program:
$MyFavoriteAnimals = @()
$Pets = "Cat","Dog","Fish","Bird"
$Names = "Jeb","Rex","Sam","Roger"
For ($i=0; $i -lt 4; $i++)
{
$NewAnimal = @{"Kind" = $Pets[$i]; "Name" = $Names[$i]}
$MyFavoriteAnimals += New-Object pscustomobject -Property $NewAnimal
}
$MyFavoriteAnimals | FT Kind, Name -AutoSize
This works fine, and has the following output:
Kind Name
---- ----
Cat Jeb
Dog Rex
Fish Sam
Bird Roger
...but if I try to place this into a function and scope $MyFavoriteAnimals as a global the New-Object command stops working:
Function My-Favorite-Animals {
$Global:MyFavoriteAnimals = @()
$Pets = "Cat","Dog","Fish","Bird"
$Names = "Jeb","Rex","Sam","Roger"
For ($i=0; $i -lt 4; $i++)
{
$NewAnimal = @{"Kind" = $Pets[$i]; "Name" = $Names[$i]}
$MyFavoriteAnimals += New-Object pscustomobject -Property $NewAnimal
}
}
My-Favorite-Animals
$MyFavoriteAnimals | FT Kind, Name -AutoSize
...and I get the following error:
Method invocation failed because [System.Management.Automation.PSObject] does not contain a method named 'op_Addition'.
At line:13 char:9
+ $MyFavoriteAnimals += New-Object pscustomobject -Property $NewAnimal
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (op_Addition:String) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound