<t>I think you might be able to use the ExpandProperty parameter of Select-Object.<br/>
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For example, to get the list of the current directory and just have the Name property displayed, one would do the following:<br/>
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ls | select -Property Name<br/>
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```<br/>
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This is still returning DirectoryInfo or FileInfo objects. You can always inspect the type coming through the pipeline by piping to [Get-Member](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849928.aspx) (alias `gm`).<br/>
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```<br/>
ls | select -Property Name | gm<br/>
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```<br/>
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So, to *expand* the object to be that of the type of property you're looking at, you can do the following:<br/>
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```<br/>
ls | select -ExpandProperty Name<br/>
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```<br/>
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In your case, you can just do the following to have a variable be an array of strings, where the strings are the Name property:<br/>
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```<br/>
$objects = ls | select -ExpandProperty Name<br/>
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