Turning Multi-Value WMI Properties into Text

When you read multi-valued information from WMI or any other source, for example, network adapter IP addresses, this information is returned as a multi line string:

PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter 'IPEnabled=true' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IPAddress
78.64.118.150
fe80::ad62:ac4d:4dea:936d

If you want to turn this into a list, use the operator -join:

PS> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter 'IPEnabled=true' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IPAddress) -join ', '
78.64.118.150, fe80::ad62:ac4d:4dea:936d

It expects the multi line (array) data on its left side and the delimiter you want to use to separate the values on its right side.

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