Extracting bits from hashtable property

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I have a variable that stores some properties like prop1, prop2, prop3… where a few are in form of hashtables. I’d need to select a couple of the properties stored in the variable and some pieces of the hashtable. The hashtable is in form of e.g. prop2: {@{label1=value1},@{label2=value2},…}
when I try
$var | select prop1 -expandproperty prop2
I’m not getting the output I need. I only want to get value1. What would be the right way to extract the properties out of ?

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$var.item(0)
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Thanks Jon but in short I get PSCustomObject doesn’t contain method item.

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So you don’t have a normal hashtable then.

To be able to help any further, you’ll need to post your code. You can also pipe your data to get-member and look at the information you can access.

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$var is of PSCustomObject type where prop2 is System.Object. The results come from Get-HPiLOHealthSummary commandlet by HPE.
I managed to get a bit further going
$vars | select prop1, @{name=“prop2”;expression={[string]::join(“;”,($_.prop2))}}
but my prop2 now displays as
@{label=value};@{label=value}
how to get rid of @{} then?

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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/cbb48b01-242f-44d1-9126-3e0233f5fe8c/expanding-multiple-noteproperties?forum=winserverpowershell

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Wow! and exact match. Excellent googling skills Jon :slight_smile: Many thanks