Union of array variables in powershell

Question

I have 2 variables in my powershell script which are being provided values at run time via REST API outputs.

I take a union of both the variables to get the overall count as below

$a+ $b
and then take the count.
This works fine when $a has more than 2 values provided . In case of a single value it takes it as string and we get string concatenation and overall count becomes 1 even if $b has multiple elements.

How to handle the scenario in powershell while taking the union of array variables that 1st variable always be an array rather than string

@Rich Matheisen

Answer 1

Hi @Nandan Hegde ,

you could just add the [array] in front of the variable name.

Maybe this helps:

[array]$a = "test1"  
[array]$b = "test3","test4"  
($a + $b).Count  

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Andreas Baumgarten