powershell - Ping TimeToLive - just get back number -

when this:

$pinging = get-wmiobject win32_pingstatus -filter "address='localhost'" | select-object timetolive

i back:

@{timetolive=128}

how number out , not @ thing around it?

i need call later in below...which erroring think becuase not looking @ number only:

switch($pinging) {     {$_ -le 128}          {return "this windows server"; break} }

error:

cannot compare "@{timetolive=128}" "128" because objects not same type or object "@{timetolive=128}" not implement "icomparable"

two options:

either use -expandproperty parameter in select-object

> $result = get-wmiobject win32_pingstatus -filter "address='localhost'" | select-object -expandproperty timetolive > $result 128

or access property directly on variable assign object to

> $result = get-wmiobject win32_pingstatus -filter "address='localhost'" | select-object timetolive > $result.timetolive 128

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