Sort-Object for ordering in PowerShell - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Sort-Object for ordering

📖 Scenario: You work in a small store and have a list of products with their prices. You want to organize this list so that the cheapest products come first.

🎯 Goal: Create a PowerShell script that sorts a list of products by their price in ascending order using Sort-Object.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a list of products with their prices as objects

Add a variable to hold the sorting property

Use Sort-Object to sort the products by price

Print the sorted list showing product names and prices

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Sorting lists of items by price or name is common in stores, inventory systems, and reports.

💼 Career

Knowing how to sort data in scripts helps automate tasks and prepare data for presentations or further processing.

1

Create the product list

Create a variable called products that contains three objects with these exact properties and values: Name as 'Apple', 'Banana', and 'Cherry'; Price as 1.20, 0.50, and 2.00 respectively.

PowerShell

# Create the products list with Name and Price properties
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use [PSCustomObject] to create objects with Name and Price properties inside an array.

2

Add the sorting property variable

Create a variable called sortProperty and set it to the string 'Price' to specify the property to sort by.

PowerShell

$products = @(
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Apple'; Price=1.20},
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Banana'; Price=0.50},
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Cherry'; Price=2.00}
)
# Create a variable called sortProperty and set it to 'Price'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just assign the string 'Price' to the variable sortProperty.

3

Sort the products by price

Create a variable called sortedProducts that stores the result of sorting products by the property stored in sortProperty using Sort-Object.

PowerShell

$products = @(
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Apple'; Price=1.20},
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Banana'; Price=0.50},
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Cherry'; Price=2.00}
)

$sortProperty = 'Price'
# Sort the products by the property in sortProperty and store in sortedProducts
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the pipeline | and Sort-Object -Property $sortProperty to sort.

4

Print the sorted products

Use foreach to loop over sortedProducts and print each product's Name and Price in the format: Product: Apple, Price: 1.2.

PowerShell

$products = @(
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Apple'; Price=1.20},
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Banana'; Price=0.50},
    [PSCustomObject]@{Name='Cherry'; Price=2.00}
)

$sortProperty = 'Price'

$sortedProducts = $products | Sort-Object -Property $sortProperty
# Loop over sortedProducts and print Name and Price as 'Product: Name, Price: Price'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use foreach ($product in $sortedProducts) and Write-Output with string interpolation.