# Show-Inspector

Opens the inspector window.\
The inspector is a debugging tool which shows all existing variables and their values:

```{image} img/variableinspector.png
:width: 300px
```

## Syntax

```powershell
Show-Inspector [-Highlight <String>] [<CommonParameters>]
```

## Parameters

```{eval-rst}
.. csv-table::
	:header: "Type","Name","Description","Optional"

	"String","Highlight","The inspector jumps to the passed variable. E.g. '$file'","yes"

```

## Return type

**empty**

## Example

Admittedly the error in the example is obvious, but it's just intented to show a possible purpose of the inspector.\
In a more complex script you can easily check your variables with this method without writing them out to a textfile.

```powershell
function Get-Path{
  param($switch)
   switch($switch){
	 a{$path = "C:\Temp\a.txt";break}
	 b{$path = "C:\Temp\b.txt";break}
	 c{$path = "C:\Temp\.txt";break}
	 d{$path = "C:\Temp\d.txt";break}
   }
  return $path
}

$path = Get-Path -switch 'c'
Show-Inspector "path"
Get-Content $path
```