Hi...

I am having problems figuring out how to code something and thought someone here might be able to give me a helping hand. I have spent hours searching the web and have come to the conclusion that perhaps I don't even  know the right terminology ;-)

I am trying to write a function that works within the pipeline, takes in an object and a Property list and does some work.

I have successfully been able to get the function to work quite well with objects, however, I can not for the life of me figure out what type of variable powershell should see the properties as and how to process them inside the pipeline function.

Here is some code. I have tried to strip out everything so it is down to the bare bones....

Function Transform-Object{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
   [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
   [PSObject]$InputObject,
   [PSObject]$Property
)
BEGIN
{
}
PROCESS
{
    $HighlightValue="Handles"

    if ($Property){
        # Foreach value in the propertylist,
        # Export out just those names and in that order
        # highlighting the proper one.
        } # if end
    else{
        "Row"
        ForEach($i in $InputObject | Get-Member -type *Property) {
            # Export all the properties of the Object
            # highlighting the proper one.
            $Name = $i.Name
            $Value = $InputObject.$Name
            if ($Name -eq $HighlightValue) { "Cell $Name Cell, Cell Bold $Value Cell Bold" }
            else { "Cell $Name Cell, Cell $Value Cell" }
        } # foreach end
        "End Row"
    } #else end
} # process end
END
{
}
} # function end


Get-Process | Select-Object -Property Handles, Id, ProcessName | Transform-Object # -Property ProcessName


Thanks for any and all help!

Try this:

function Transform-Object
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
       [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
       [PSObject]$InputObject,
       [Object[]]$Property = $null
    )
   
    BEGIN
    {
        $valueToHighlight = "Handles"
    }
    PROCESS
    {
        Write-Host
       
        if ($Property)
        {           
            $properties = $InputObject | Select-Object -Property $Property
           
            for ([int]$i = 0; $i -lt $Property.Length; $i++)
            {
                $name = $($Property[$i]).ToString()
                $value = $properties.$name
               
                if ($name -eq $valueToHighlight)
                {
                    Write-Host "$name, " -NoNewLine
                    Write-Host "$value" -BackgroundColor Green -ForeGroundColor White
                }
                else
                {
                    Write-Host "$name, $value"
                }
            }
        }
        else
        {          
            $properties = $InputObject | Get-Member -MemberType Properties
           
            foreach ($property in $properties)
            {
                $name = $property.Name
                $value = $InputObject.$name
               
                if ($name -eq $valueToHighlight)
                {
                    Write-Host "$name, " -NoNewLine
                    Write-Host "$value" -BackgroundColor Green -ForeGroundColor White
                }
                else
                {
                    Write-Host "$name, $value"
                }
            }
        }
    }
    END
    {
    }
}

Get-Process | Select-Object -Property Handles, Id, ProcessName | Transform-Object -Property Handles, ProcessName

GW,
Thank you so very much for helping! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for ;-)
You are wonderful!
Scott