add element to array in powershell - powershell

Question

I'm trying to add a Totals line to the array $response_table.
The line should be Totals = 56 (number), for example.
I've tried $response_table += #{Name="Total"; Count=55};, it adds a line with rubbish data.
Can you help with how to add this?
Code is below
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
$current_month = (Get-Date).month;
$current_year = (Get-Date).year;
$response_table=#();
$what_year=2019
$month_count=12
$current_month, $total_year, $current_date_interval;
$total_monthly=#(); # empty array, will be populated with values from the API
#$numbers += 5, 2, 3; # to add values to array
if ($what_year -eq $current_year)
{
$month_count = $current_month-1;
}
for ($current_month=1; $current_month -le $month_count; $current_month++)
{
$current_date_interval = -join($what_year, "-", $current_month);
$uri="https://data.police.uk/api/crimes-street/bicycle-theft?poly=53.950624,-1.059234:53.951301,-1.049181:53.947361,-1.043420:53.950333,-1.030671:53.952997,-1.016427:53.950189,-1.013653:53.929487,-1.042286:53.942512,-1.054948:53.941936,-1.057172:53.944481,-1.060155s8&date="+$current_date_interval;
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method Get -Headers $headers
$response_table += $response | Group month |Select -Property name,count
Write-Host $response_table;
$response | Group month |Select -Property name,count
$total_year += $response.count;
}
Write-Host ($response_table|Measure-object -Property count -sum)
$response_table += #{Name="Total"; Count=55};
# does not work
$response_table | export-csv "list.csv" -notypeinformation
#add-content "list.csv" "Total,$total_year"
Write-Host "Yearly total"$total_year;

Answer 1

As AdminOfThings indicates, you're mistakenly adding a hashtable to the existing array of custom objects (that Select-Object outputs).
To construct a custom object in PSv3+, simply place [pscustomobject] before a hashtable literal, which in your case means:
$response_table += [pscustomobject] #{Name="Total"; Count=55}
Now your Export-Csv command should work as intended.
As an aside: Up to PowerShell 6.x, Export-Csv only (meaningfully) supports custom objects as input, not also hashtables. v7 adds support for hashtables.
Generally avoid using += for appending to arrays:
Arrays are fixed-size data structures, so what PowerShell must do when you "append to" an array with += is to create a new array behind the scenes every time, which is quite inefficient in a loop.
While using an efficiently in-place extensible data structure such as [System.Collections.ArrayList] or [System.Collections.Generic.List[object]] is the next best thing, the simplest and fastest approach is to simply let PowerShell collect multiple output objects in an array ([object[]]) for you, by assigning the entire loop as an expression to a variable:
[array] $response_table = for ($current_month=1; $current_month -le $month_count; $current_month++)
{
$current_date_interval = -join($what_year, "-", $current_month);
$uri="https://data.police.uk/api/crimes-street/bicycle-theft?poly=53.950624,-1.059234:53.951301,-1.049181:53.947361,-1.043420:53.950333,-1.030671:53.952997,-1.016427:53.950189,-1.013653:53.929487,-1.042286:53.942512,-1.054948:53.941936,-1.057172:53.944481,-1.060155s8&date="+$current_date_interval;
$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method Get -Headers $headers
# *Output* the result of this pipeline, and PowerShell will
# collect all outputs for you
$response | Group month | Select -Property name,count
$total_year += $response.count;
}
# It's fine to use += to add the total, because you're only using it *once*.
$response_table += [pscustomobject] #{Name="Total"; Count=55}
Note: The [array] type constraint ensures that $response_table becomes an array even if the loop happens to have just 1 iteration.