Powershell pscustomobject with array properties to Csv file - powershell

Question

I got an $Object with a ton of properties which look like this:
IsSynchronized : { False, False }
What I want is to do something like :
$Object | Export-Csv C:\Test\Merge.csv -Delimiter ';'
To get a CSV containing :
IsSynchronized
--------------
False
False
But as expected I get
IsSynchronized
---------------
System.Object[]
Is there a good way to get a ton of the object's properties in a .CSV ?
I have 6 .csv files with values and I try to add them in to one big .csv for further processing.
Edit:
I asked about this Topic yesterday but i need to make more clear what i want.
I create a PSCustomObject and fill it with Arrays:
$Object = New-Object -TypeName PSCustomObject
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "CPUHost" -value $global:CPUHost
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "NumCpu" -value $global:NumCpu
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "MemoryMB" -value $global:MemoryMB
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "CPU Usage (Average), Mhz" -value $global:CPUUsageAverageMhz
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "CPU Usage (Average), %" -value $global:CPUUsageAverage
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "Memory Usage (Average), %" -value $global:MemoryUsageAverage
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "Network Usage (Average), KBps" -value $global:NetworkUsageAverageKBps
$Object | add-member -membertype NoteProperty -name "Disk Usage (Average), KBps" -value $global:DiskUsageAverageKBps
...
All of these Global Variables are Arrays because i never know how many Values i get in the first place.
They are filled by lopping through 6 CSV Files i will allways get.
After running this bit i will have a Object looking like this:
CPUHost : {xxxx}
NumCpu : {20}
MemoryMB : {36094}
CPU Usage (Average), Mhz : {3914,33}
CPU Usage (Average), % : {8,91}
Memory Usage (Average), % : {70,17}
Network Usage (Average), KBps : {439,68}
Disk Usage (Average), KBps : {1994,93}
...
What i want is to Export that in to a CSV Displayed like :
CPUHost NumCPU MemoryMb CPUUsage ...
------- ------ -------- ---------
xxxx 20 36094 3914
33
With every Value in its own Cell.
What i get is instead of the values : System.Type.[] which is technically correct but not what i need.
I allready tryed to -join the values but that will leave me with the values in the same cell

Answer 1

You state that you have one object with multiple properties like what was posted. I assume you have an object that looks like the following:
IsSynchronized Property2 Property3
-------------- --------- ---------
{False, False} {1, 2, 3} {string1, string2, string3, string4}
You could do the following:
$loopmax = $object[0].psobject.properties |% {($_.Value | measure-object).Count} | Sort -desc | Select -First 1
$newobject = for ($i = 0; $i -lt $loopmax; $i++) {
$hash = [ordered]#{}
foreach ($p in $object[0].psobject.properties.name) {
$hash[$p] = $object.$p[$i]
}
[pscustomobject]$hash
}
$newobject | convertto-csv -notype

Answer 2

This doesn't seem wise to do. CSV isn't very good for representing or storing rich or hierarchical objects. The problem is even worse when the property is an object, in your case it's a flat array. You can output as you suggest / request, and other answers have demonstrated:
IsSynchronized
--------------
False
False
However, this disrupts the property's relationship to the other properties. If you have other types like [String] & [Int], or even varying numbers of elements in array typed properties things are going to get weird quickly!
If you must stick with CSV you can sub-delimit the field. A great example of this is Exchange Message Tracking logs. They are CSV files delimited on the typical ",", but the recipients field is sub-delimited on a ";".
An example in code might look something like this:
$Object =
[PSCustomObject]#{
Prop1 = "one"
Prop2 = "two"
Arr1 = #( 1,2,3,4 )
}
$Object |
Select-Object Prop1, Prop2,
#{ Name = 'Arr1'; Expression = {$_.Arr1 -join "," } } |
ConvertTo-Csv -Delimiter ";"
Results:
"Prop1";"Prop2";"Arr1"
"one";"two";"1,2,3,4"
Note: To use full fidelity data in a later process would require appropriate handling on input. However, if you follow other solutions and said weirdness occurs you'll be left with a similar issue; having to handle on the input side everywhere you intend to use that data.
Given CSV's shortcomings JSON may be a better choice to store & reuse full fidelity objects. Export/Import CliXML are interesting for this.

Answer 3

To answer the literal question asked (although I'm not sure that's what the OP actually wants)...
If you have a single object with a property that contains an array of values, you can expand them out into a new array and then convert that to csv as follows:
$obj = new-object psobject -Property #{
"IsSynchronized" = #( $false, $false )
}
$obj
# IsSynchronized
# --------------
# {False, False}
$data = $obj.IsSynchronized | foreach-object {
new-object pscustomobject -Property #{ "IsSynchronized" = $_ }
}
$csv = $data | ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation
$csv
# "IsSynchronized"
# "False"
# "False"