Adding multiple -and and -or statements in WHERE clause in Powershell - powershell

Question

I'm currently using Powershell, and i'm trying to sort data in my variable that i'm pulling from another system. At the moment i'm trying to use one -and statement and -or statements after an -eq sign. So I was wondering what's the correct way I need to make the syntax in my where statement.
$DLPList | Select Node.NodeName, Properties.OSType, PropsView.version, Node.NodeTextPath2 | where PropsView.version -ne '1.4.706.172' -and (Properties.OSType -eq $win7 -or $win8 -or $win81 -or $win10)
I know there's multiple other stuff on this, but everything i've tried so far doesn't work. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Yes, you have to use the script block version of where-object. Also note that -and and -or have EQUAL PRECEDENCE in powershell, which is very unusual in a language.

Answer 2

Alright, what I figured out for this is that you cannot just add use -or. Instead you must do Properties.ostype for each one. Here is the code that I came up with to get it to work. Also a little tip is to do Where-Object before Select-Object to save computing power.
$DLPList = $list1 | Where-Object{ $_.'UDLP.prodversion' -lt '9.5.704.112' -and ($_.'Properties.OSType' -ne 'Windows XP') -and ($_.'EPOComputerProperties.OSType' -ne 'Windows Vista') -and ($_.'EPOComputerProperties.OSType' -ne 'Windows 2003') -and ($_.'Properties.OSType' -ne 'Windows 2003 R2') -and ($_.'EPOComputerProperties.OSType' -ne 'Windows 2008') -and ($_.'Properties.OSType' -ne 'Windows 2008 R2') -and ($_.'Properties.OSType' -ne 'Windows Server 2012' -and ($_.'Properties.OSType' -ne 'Windows Server 2012 R2') -and ($_.'Properties.OSType' -ne 'Windows Server 2016')) } | Select-Object Node.NodeName, Properties.OSType, UDLP.productversion, Node.NodeText | Sort-Object -Property Node.NodeText -Descending

Answer 3

Try adding brackets and replacing the chained boolean operators with a regular expression "-match" operator condition:
$DLPList | Select Node.NodeName, Properties.OSType, PropsView.version, Node.NodeTextPath2 | where { $_.'PropsView.version' -ne '1.4.706.172' -and ($_.'Properties.OSType' -match "($win7|$win8|$win81|$win10)") }
Here's sample code that works for me:
$DLPList = #(2, 4, 6, 7)
$DLPList | where { ($_ -ne 7) -and ($_ -lt 10) -and ($_ -gt 0) }
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4
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$DLPList | where { ($_ -ne 7) -and ($_ -match "(4|5|11)" -and ($_ -gt 0)) }
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