PowerShell – Find Item in List

You can use the Where-Object cmdlet in PowerShell to find an item in a list.

The following method shows how you can do it with syntax.

Method 1: Find an item in the list

$languages = @("Python", "C#", "C", "C++", "VB", "Java", "Go")

$searchItem = "VB"

$foundItem = $languages | Where-Object { $_ -eq $searchItem }

if($foundItem) {
      Write-Host "Found '$searchItem' in the list."
} else {
      Write-Host "'$searchItem' not found in the list."
}

This example will search for item ‘VB‘ in the list and return if found.

Find an Item in the List in PowerShell

To find an item in the list in PowerShell, you can use the Where-Object cmdlet to filter and compare the item in the list using the -eq operator.

# Define a list of programming languages
$languages = @("Python", "C#", "C", "C++", "VB", "Java", "Go")

# Define the search item
$searchItem = "VB"

# Find specific search item in the list using Where-Object
$foundItem = $languages | Where-Object { $_ -eq $searchItem }

if($foundItem) {
      Write-Host "Found '$searchItem' in the list."
} else {
      Write-Host "'$searchItem' not found in the list."
}

Output:

In this example, we define a list $languages representing programming langauges. We then pipe the $languages to the Where-Object.

The Where-Object cmdlet filters the array to include only items that match “VB” and store the result in $foundItem.

Finally, we use the if-else statement to check if the $searchItem found in the list and print it on the terminal.

Conclusion

I hope the above article on finding item in the list in PowerShell is helpful to you.

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