How to save .csv paths in a object? - powershell

Question

I have a foreach loop that works like that:
I load an object from XML, so an object composed from city and email of the ICT Head, then I set the future export path using the email. I also set $CurrentCity to get the city we are cycling on.
Then I make a query and check in a full report if there is that city taken from the object we are cycling in, and if there is, I make an export with the corresponding path (as I said before including corresponding email address).
The problem is that I'm gonna send those mail next but I need to collect path of the attachment and email of the recipient in an object.
How can I do that? I thought I could make a simple object AttachmentPath and Email and then make a foreach into that to get every time the values and send the mail who will be with single-attachment.
$LCL_Setting.Local_Config.LF_param.IctHead.city | foreach {
$tempfile = $myDir + $dir_out + $fileOut + $LogDate +'_'+$_.ICT_mail +'.csv'
$CurrentCity = $_.Branch
if ($result | where {$_.City -eq "$($CurrentCity)"}) {
$result |
where {$_.City -eq "$($CurrentCity)"} |
Export-Csv $tempfile -NoTypeInformation -Append
}
}

Answer 1

You can build custom objects with the e-mail address and output file path like this:
$temp_files = $LCL_Setting.Local_Config.LF_param.IctHead.city | foreach {
...
if ($result | where {$_.City -eq "$($CurrentCity)"}) {
...
New-Object -Type PSObject -Property #{
'Mail' = $_.ICT_mail
'File' = $tempfile
}
}
}
However, using a hashtable instead of a list of custom objects might be a better approach, because it allows you to look up the file path by e-mail address.
$temp_files = #{}
$LCL_Setting.Local_Config.LF_param.IctHead.city | foreach {
...
if ($result | where {$_.City -eq "$($CurrentCity)"}) {
...
$temp_files[$_.ICT_mail] = $tempfile
}
}