foreach - Testing to see if a scheduled task exist in powershell -

i can't figure out why below code won't work:

function createfirefoxtask() {    $schedule = new-object -com schedule.service     $schedule.connect()     $tasks = $schedule.getfolder("\").gettasks(0)     foreach ($task in ($tasks | select name)) {       echo "task: $task.name"       if($task.equals("firefoxmaint")) {          write-output "$task exists"          break       }    } }  createfirefoxtask 

the output this:

firefoxmaint                                                                            task: @{name=firefoxmaint}.name task: @{name=task1}.name task: @{name=task2}.name task: @{name=task3}.name task: @{name=task4}.name task: @{name=task5}.name 

if echo $task.name shell without going through script, displays name.

when used in double-quoted string, variable evaluation stop @ punctuation. can use $() denote subexpression within string, this:

"task: $($task.name)" 

powershell evaluate expression inside parentheses , expand string outcome