Output true value for Foreach statement - powershell

Question

I am trying to output the value which checks if the condition matches, but instead its returning value whether it is true or not.
$result = "VM name"
$name= get-content C:\monitor\Serverlist\Serverlist2.txt
foreach($nam1 in $name)
{
#Write-output $nam1
$l=Get-Vm -computername $nam1 |out-string
foreach ($l2 in $l)
{
if ( $l2 = $result )
{
Write-Output $input "is in" $nam1
}
else
{
""
}
}
}
but output i am getting is true in all case, where as VM name is present in comp1 only.
VM name is in comp1
VM name is in comp2
VM name is in comp3
If statement should return condition if it matches? I also tried looping if statement outside 1st foreach loop but that gives me result of last comp "comp3" even the matching result is in comp1.
Any Idea where I am going wrong?

Answer 1

The = sign not for conditional testing, it's for setting the value:
if ( $l2 = $result )
{
Write-Output $input "is in" $nam1
}
Should be... (note that I'm using -eq to test equality)
if ( $l2 -eq $result )
{
Write-Output $input "is in" $nam1
}
But even that wouldn't work. Your conditional test between a string and a VirtualMachine object won't work. Here's what you want...
if ( $l2.Name -eq $result )
{
Write-Output $input "is in" $nam1
}
In the above snippet, I'm doing a conditional test on VirtualMachine.Name (type string) with your variable.