Add Dynamic Key Value pair to PSCustomObject - powershell

Question

i have a script which emits comma separated values for a particular variable and its always dynamic, how can i separate them into multiple key value pairs, i tried the below but the output array gives only values[0] and 1
$tagsd = #()
foreach ($a in $vms)
{
$tags = (($a.ExtensionData.GetResourceProperties()).property | ?{$_.name -eq 'summary|tag'}).value.TrimStart('[').TrimEnd(']').split(",").trim()
#<vSphere Tag-Production>, <Cost Center-90210>
$Object = [pscustomobject][ordered]#{
VmName = $a.name
}
0..$tags.count | % {
Add-Member -InputObject $Object -NotePropertyName "VMtag$_" -NotePropertyValue $tags[$_]
}
$tagsd += $Object
}
But the output comes as below, even export csv gives me the same
But the array consists of all the values as seen below, some VM's have Tag1 to Tag 5 but i get only VMtag[0] and VMtag1, can some one helpw?, i wanted all the tag values to be part of export csv.

Answer 1

the table is created according to the first object. If you want to display all the columns:
$propNames = $tagsd | foreach { $_.psobject.Properties.Name } | select -Unique
$tagsd | select $propNames
Also, it looks like there are other problems with your code.
If $tags has only one value (eg $tags = "none"), $tags[0] will return the first character "n" rather than the string "none". so you can work around this by either [array]$tags = ... or $tags = #(...).
In addition, the range should be 0..($tags.Count -1) instead of 0..$tags.Count.
$tagsd = #()
foreach ($a in $vms) {
[array]$tags = (($a.ExtensionData.GetResourceProperties()).Property | where { $_.Name -eq 'summary|tag' }).Value.TrimStart('[').TrimEnd(']').Split(",").Trim()
$object = [pscustomobject]#{ VmName = $a.Name }
if($tags.Count) {
0..($tags.Count - 1) | foreach {
$object | Add-Member -NotePropertyName "VMtag$_" -NotePropertyValue $tags[$_]
}
}
$tagsd += $object
}
If possible, it is better to avoid index access to array.
$tagsd = foreach ($a in $vms) {
$tags = (($a.ExtensionData.GetResourceProperties()).Property | where { $_.Name -eq 'summary|tag' }).Value.TrimStart('[').TrimEnd(']').Split(",").Trim()
$h = [ordered]#{ VmName = $a.Name }
$tags | foreach { $i = 0 } { $h.Add("VMtag${i}", $_); $i++ }
[pscustomobject]$h
}
$propNames = $tagsd | foreach { $_.psobject.Properties.Name } | select -Unique
$tagsd | select $propNames