Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Second Edition

Arrays with a type

An array may be given a type in similar manner to a variable holding a single value. The difference is that the type name is followed by [] as was the case when creating an empty array of a specific size. For example, each of these is an array type, which may appear before a variable name:

[String[]]      # An array of strings 
[UInt64[]]      # An array of unsigned 64-bit integers 
[Xml[]]         # An array of XML documents 

If a type is set for the array, more care must be taken about assigning values. If a type is declared, PowerShell will attempt to convert any value assigned to an array element to that type.

In this example, $null will become 0, and 3.45 (a Double) will become 3 (normal rounding rules apply when converting integers): ...