The output is incorrect about pwshreadxmlplist

[msftrncs]

Hi, @kyjdp. The output is correct.

Patches is an array, and in PowerShell when you reference members within an array without specifying the array index, you get all of them.

There are 13 members in the array:

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches.Length

Try this command, to see them all separately using Format-Hex

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches.foreach{ $_.Find | Format-Hex }

or reference each one

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches[0].Find | Format-Hex
$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches[1].Find | Format-Hex
# and so on...

[Davider-code]

Hi, @kyjdp. The output is correct.

Patches is an array, and in PowerShell when you reference members within an array without specifying the array index, you get all of them.

There are 13 members in the array:

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches.Length

Try this command, to see them all separately using Format-Hex

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches.foreach{ $_.Find | Format-Hex }

or reference each one

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches[0].Find | Format-Hex
$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches[1].Find | Format-Hex
# and so on...

@msftrncs
Hello, thank you for your reply
Sometimes I need to look at the actual values of these arrays because I want to modify them
Is there a way to fix this problem? Thank you in advance

PS:
In PowerShell programming language, I spent a lot of time looking for functions to modify plist files. Your function is the only and most powerful,
Thank you for your great work

[msftrncs]

Sometimes I need to look at the actual values of these arrays because I want to modify them
Is there a way to fix this problem? Thank you in advance

There is one thing that complicates these arrays. When you query the Find property without specifying the index to the Patches array, the result is an array of an array of bytes and PowerShell will just concatenate them together in to a single array of bytes. To modify them, you must process each element of the Patches array separately, such as using the .foreach special method, the ForEach-Object special commandlet, the foreach statement or lastly creating a for loop to iterate the array. If you need to modify only a single instance, or just a few, you will need to provide a condition to control the modification.

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches.foreach{ 
    # modify `$_.Find` here
}

# or

$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches | ForEach-Object { 
    # modify `$_.Find` here
}

# or

foreach ($patch in $plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches) {
    # modify `$patch.Find` here
}

# or

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches.Length; $i ++ ) {
    # modify `$plist.ACPI.DSDT.Patches[$i].Find` here
}