Object Property Expansion in Strings

Just a quick on really. Ever had a problem where you had a property of an object that was a string that you wanted to use in another string?

For example, if you had a variable that looked like this:

$Name = "Posh Pete"

You could expand that really easily in another string:

write-host "Hi, my name is $Name"

Which returns "Hi, my name is Posh Pete" which is great.

However, say you had an object that had 2 properties, "FirstName" and "LastName"

#Quick and dirty object creation
$NameObject = "" | Select FirstName,LastName
$NameObject.FirstName = "Posh"
$NameObject.LastName = "Pete"

Now, say you wanted to do what we did before:

write-host "Hi, my name is $NameObject.FirstName $NameObject.LastName"

You get a rather nasty looking response:

Hi, my name is @{FirstName=Posh; LastName=Pete}.FirstName @{FirstName=Posh; LastName=Pete}.LastName

Eeeeek!

So, to get around this, all you need to do is wrap your expressions in a $(), so it looks like this:

write-host "Hi, my name is $($NameObject.FirstName) $($NameObject.LastName)"

Job done