Select the values of one property on all objects of an array in PowerShell

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I think you might be able to use the ExpandProperty parameter of Select-Object.

For example, to get the list of the current directory and just have the Name property displayed, one would do the following:

ls | select -Property Name

This is still returning DirectoryInfo or FileInfo objects. You can always inspect the type coming through the pipeline by piping to Get-Member (alias gm).

ls | select -Property Name | gm

So, to expand the object to be that of the type of property you’re looking at, you can do the following:

ls | select -ExpandProperty Name

In your case, you can just do the following to have a variable be an array of strings, where the strings are the Name property:

$objects = ls | select -ExpandProperty Name

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