The shortest PowerShell syntax to create a new PSObject using a property?
I use the following very often:
New-Object psobject -Property @{a=1; b=2; c=3; d=4}
I would like to make it as short as possible, maybe even 1 character? What's the shortest way to create a new psobject using the properties above?
My desire is that I could do it with syntax like this:
#{a=1; b=2; c=3; d=4}
Note that I have replaced @ with a new special character.
Note that if this counts as off-topic I will outweigh it.
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PowerShell 3 and later supports this syntax:
[pscustomobject]@{a=1; b=2; c=3; d=4}
One additional benefit is that the properties are ordered, as opposed to the standard New-Object call.
You add overhead, but presumably you could create your own type accelerator that does something similar to pscustomobject, and use a shorter name :) Not sure what's going on under the hood of pscustomobject though.
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