Question

Does the latest version of Powershell have the ability to do something like JavaScript’s:

var point = new Object(); point.x = 12; point.y = 50; 

If not, what is the equivalent or workaround?

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Answer 1

The syntax is not directly supported by the functionality is there via the add-member cmdlet’s. Awhile ago, I wrapped this functionality in a general purpose tuple function.

This will give you the ability to one line create these objects.

$point = New-Tuple 'x',12,'y',50 

Here is the code for New-Tuple

function New-Tuple() {     param ( [object[]]$list= $(throw 'Please specify the list of names and values') )      $tuple = new-object psobject     for ( $i= 0 ; $i -lt $list.Length; $i = $i+2)     {         $name = [string]($list[$i])         $value = $list[$i+1]         $tuple | add-member NoteProperty $name $value     }      return $tuple }  

Blog Post on the subject: http://blogs.msdn.com/jaredpar/archive/2007/11/29/tuples-in-powershell.aspx#comments