How do I prevent typos in property names of Objects?

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Hello,

It tooks me an hour to found simple typo in statement “$file.Trim().lenth -gt 0” where $file is just String object. Obviously I would not be able even to compile this if this would be .NET application but in powershell it did not do anything at all and just returned $false for that statement.
There is no solution in Powershell for this issue and I just need to be very carefull or there is some sort of “Option Explicit” or similar I can define to raise Exception on trying to get Property which does not exist?

Thanks,
G

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Yep:

Set-StrictMode -Version Latest

This does a number of things, one of which is producing an error when you try to access a non-existent property.

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Also try to get in the habit of using Tab completion. When it’s available, it’ll help prevent typos like that.

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Tab completion does not work if it’s not property of defined object
$a.Length works but $a.Trim().Length does not