Join-Object

re: Join-Object

Sunos — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:51:42 GMT

Mark!

This section is very useful to me.

re: Join-Object

Raimund Andrée — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:03:56 GMT

Excellent stuff. This is part of my workshop content now...

Thanks,

Raimund

re: Join-Object

Stephen Mills — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:34:41 GMT

Thanks for putting this out here. This is really a needed function for PowerShell and it is to bad it wasn't included in V3. There is one change I would suggest with it though. I seems to make sense for the most part except for the Where parameter. When you call the function you have a Left and Right parameter, but in the Where clause you reference those with $args[0] and $args[1].

So a where clause looks like:

-Where { $args[0].Id -eq $args[1].EmployeeId }

It would be nicer if it were to use $Left and $Right. Then it would be easier to understand. It shouldn't be too hard to do if you just recreate the Where scriptblock inside your function with something like the following.

$NewWhere = $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.NewScriptBlock( 'param ( $Left, $Right)' + $Where.ToString())

Then the Where parameter would be used like:

-Where { $Left.Id -eq $Right.EmployeeId }

This would be more intuitive than it currently is, although I could see some benifit if the parameters were $LeftItem and $RightItem, but I prefer it to have the same name as the parameters used in the function even if there is some room for confusion ( one is a collection and one is a single item).

re: Join-Object

PowerShell Team — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:06:18 GMT

updated the script part of this blog today (7/26/2012) to support the hashtable syntax for the Property parameter of Join-Object. Please see the property documentation for details.

Regarding Jeremy's question: Join-Object will not be in the default PS 3.0 package.

Lucio Silveira [MSFT]

re: Join-Object

Jeremy Engel — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:26:22 GMT

Great function! I added it to my default modules list. Do you think will get included with the default PS 3.0 package?