Function Get-MyVariable {

[cmdletbinding()]

[OutputType([System.Management.Automation.PSVariable])]

[Alias("gmv")]

Param(

[Parameter(Position = 0)]

[ValidateSet("Global", "Local", "Script", "Private", 0, 1, 2, 3)]

[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]

[string]$Scope = "Global",

[switch]$NoTypeInformation

)

if ($psise) {

Write-Warning "This function is not designed for the PowerShell ISE."

}

else {

Write-Verbose "Getting system defined variables"

#get all global variables from PowerShell with no profiles

$psvariables = powershell -noprofile -COMMAND "& {GET-VARIABLE | select -expandproperty name}"

Write-Verbose "Found $($psvariables.count) initial state variables"

<#

find all the variables where the name isn't in the variable we just created

and also isn't a system variable generated after the shell has been running

and also any from this function

#>

Write-Verbose "Getting current variables in $Scope scope"

$variables = Get-Variable -Scope $Scope

Write-Verbose "Found $($variables.count)"

Write-Verbose "Filtering variables"

#define variables to also exclude

$skip = "LastExitCode|_|PSScriptRoot|skip|PSCmdlet|psvariables|variables|Scope|this"

#filter out some automatic variables

$filtered = $variables | Where-object {$psvariables -notcontains $_.name -AND $_.name -notmatch $skip}

if ($NoTypeInformation) {

#write results with not object types

$filtered

}

else {

#add type information for each variable

Write-Verbose "Adding value type"

$filtered | Select-Object Name, Value, @{Name = "Type"; Expression = {$_.Value.GetType().Name}}

}

Write-Verbose "Finished getting my variables"

}

} #end function