Converting byte array to true/false - powershell

Question

Through various different posts on StackOverflow and other places I was able to put together a powershell script that FTP uploads files and it works great. However I wanted to add a bit more verbosity to it. See code below:
foreach ($file in $uploadfiles)
{
# create the full path to the file on remote server (odd but okay!)
$ftp_command = $ftp + $file
# for debugging
#$ftp_command
# create a new URI object for the full path of the file
$uri = New-Object System.URI($ftp_command)
#for debugging
#$uri
# finally do our upload to the remote server - URI object, full path to local file
#$responseArray = $ftpclient.UploadFile($uri,$file.Fullname)
$result = $ftpclient.UploadFile($uri,$file.Fullname)
if ($result) {
$file.Fullname + " uploaded successfully"
} else {
$file.Fullname + " not uploaded successfully"
}
}
Basically after the file is uploaded I wanted to check and see if it was successful or not. Upload file is supposed to return a byte array ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/36s52zhs(v=vs.80).aspx ; A Byte array containing the body of the response from the resource.). I'm new to powershell so that's probably where my problem is, but for the life of me I can't get anything to come out of $result so I can test. Is it possible the server isn't returning anything or I'm just not accessing/setting the the byte array correctly? I've tried a variety of different things, but haven't yet figured anything out.
Thanks,

Answer 1

I would not use the $result in your case begining PowerShell 2.0 you can use the try/catch sections.
try
{
$ftpclient.UploadFile($uri,$file.Fullname)
}
catch [System.Net.WebException]
{
# here $_ gives you the exception details
}