PowerShell doesn’t return an empty array as an array

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Your function doesn’t work because PowerShell returns all non-captured stream output, not just the argument of the return statement. An empty array is mangled into $null in the process. However, you can preserve an array on return by prepending it with the array construction operator (,):

function test {
  $arr = @()
  return ,$arr
}

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