multiline property in psobject

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I'm trying to get the output of mu script in form of an html file. The output consists of selected properties of a custom psobject. One of them is a list of local admins which comes from the following
$admins = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $name -ScriptBlock {net localgroup "Administrators" | where{$_ -and $_ -notmatch "The command completed"} | select -skip 4}

where $admins is one of the properties named Local_administartors. When converted to html however I see System.Object[] instead of my list of admins in the corresponding cell.
What needs done with my $admins variable to have a nice list in the single cell?

[Don Jones Keymaster Points: 1,811Rank: Community Hero]

So, the problem is that you've got an array, and PowerShell doesn't know what you want done with it. I'm not sure how you're producing the HTML, but ConvertTo-HTML, as one example, can't "expand" an array for you. You'd need to do that yourself. I *suspect* that what you've got is an array of strings, which means you might try:

$admins = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $name -ScriptBlock {net localgroup "Administrators" | where{$_ -and $_ -notmatch "The command completed"} | select -skip 4} | Out-String

To turn the array into a flat string. Now, a potential problem is that it'll probably use carriage returns, which HTML won't render. I'm not sure if...

$admins -replace "\n\r","
"

Would work or not, but I'd try that, to convert the carriage return into HTML "line break" tags. I'd probably have to fuss with it along those lines until I got something like what I wanted.

[YCE Participant Points: 12Rank: Member]

Worked like a charm. Many thanks

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