Retrieve Custom Object From Hashtable - powershell

Question

I've written a PowerShell function to create a custom object and stores it into a hashtable. The issue I'm facing is retrieving that object. I need to retrieve that object because it contains an array, I need to loop through that array and write it to a text file.
function removeItem {
<#Madatory Parameters for function, it takes the path to the files/folders
to clean up and path to the hashtable.#>
Param([Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
[string]$path,
[string]$writetoText,
[hashtable] $hashWrite=#{}
)
<#Begin if statement: Test if Path Exists#>
if (Test-Path ($path)) {
<#Begin if statement: Check if file is Directory#>
if ((Get-Item $path) -is [System.IO.DirectoryInfo]) {
$pathObj = [pscustomobject]#{
pathName = $path
Wipe = (Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse)
Count = (Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse | Measure-Object).Count
}
# Write-Output $pathObj.Wipe
#Add Data to Hashtable
$hashWrite.Add($pathObj.pathName,$pathObj)
foreach ($h in $hashWrite.GetEnumerator()) {
Write-Host "$($h.Name): $($h.Value)"
}
<#
[string[]]$view = $pathObj.Wipe
for ($i=0; $i -le $view.Count; $i++){
Write-Output $view[$i]
}
#>
$pathObj.pathName = $pathObj.pathName + "*"
}<#End if statement:Check if file is Directory #>
}
}
My function takes 3 arguments, a path, the text file path, and a hashtable. Now, I create a custom object and store the path, files/folders contained in that path, and the count. Now, my issue is, I want to retrieve that custom object from my hashtable so that I can loop though the Wipe variable, because it's an array, and write it to the text file. If I print the hashtable to the screen it see the Wipe variable as System.Object[].
How do I retrieve my custom object from the hash table so I can loop through the Wipe Variable?
Possible Solution:
$pathObj = [pscustomobject]#{
pathName = $path
Wipe = (Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse)
Count = (Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse | Measure-Object).Count
}
#Add Data to Hashtable
$hashWrite.Add($pathObj.pathName,$pathObj)
foreach ($h in $hashWrite.GetEnumerator()) {
$read= $h.Value
[string[]]$view = $read.Wipe
for ($i=0; $i -le $view.Count; $i++) {
Write-Output $view[$i]
}
}
Is this the ideal way of doing it?

Answer 1

There are uses for GetEnumerator(), but in your case you're better off just looping over the keys of the hashtable:
$hashWrite.Keys | % {
$hashWrite[$_].Wipe
} | select -Expand FullName