Extract value of one array from another array

Question

I have a few arrays as shown below.

$a1 = "apple"
$a2 = "ball"
$a3 = "cat"
$a4 = "dog"
$a5 = "egg"

Now, I am trying to store the values of the above arrays in a separate array as shown below.

$array = @()
for($i = 1; $i -le 5; $i++) {$array += "$" + "a$i"}

Now $array give me the following

PS C:\> $array
$a1
$a2
$a3
$a4
$a5
PS C:\>

What I want now is if I can extract the value of array $a1which is apple, instead of the array's $array value $a1. I would like to extract the value "apple" of $a1 from $array. Somebody who has done this before, can you please shed some light on this. Thanks.

Yes 4c74356b41. You are right. My bad. The base type for $a1 is indeed System.Object. Thanks for pointing that out. The below answer works for me. :) — Vivek Kumar Singh
– Vivek Kumar Singh, Commented Apr 25, 2017 at 9:06

4c74356b41 · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-25 08:01:58Z

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You could do this:

for($i = 1; $i -le 5; $i++) {$array += Get-Variable ("a" + $i)}

this would get variables a1,a2... and store them into array

answered Apr 25, 2017 at 8:01

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