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gooly
gooly

Reputation: 1341

POwerShell StreamWriter

I have a hash that should contain a lot of related stuff one thing is the 'handle' for a log-file:

$myHash = NewObject psobject -Property @{
    # ...
    "LogFile"  = [System.IO.StreamWriter] $($Env:USERPROFILE+"\Documents\Logs\MsgLog.txt")     
    # ...
}

This fails with (my translation): The value "C:\Users..." cannot be converted into a "System.IO.StreamWriter"
The path is valid.

What do I have to change?

Thanks in advance
Gooly

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1332

Answers (1)

Keith Hill
Keith Hill

Reputation: 201592

Try it like this:

$myHash = New-Object psobject -Property @{
    # ...
    LogFile = new-object System.IO.StreamWriter "$($Env:USERPROFILE)\Documents\Logs\MsgLog.txt"
    # ...

}

Note: you don't have to quote the key/property names unless you're putting spaces in them.

Upvotes: 2

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