Getting confused on how to manipulate output concatenation to adhere to JSON array outfile?

Hi all,

I think I’m siking myself out here. I am trying to run this function that checks Windows processes and outputs back whether it is “running” or “not running”:

function Get-Processes { $processes = Get-Content -Path "C:scriptsprocessprocesses.txt" $ProcessActive = Get-Process -ProcessName $processes -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue foreach($p in $processes) { if($ProcessActive -eq $null) { "$p " + "not running" } else { "$p " + "running" } } } 

When I initialize the function Get-Processes inside an array and ConvertTo-JSON the array, the JSON array exports the following:

 "processes": [ "spotify running" "chrome running" "DWM running" ], 

Ideally, I would like the JSON output to be exported as:

"processes": [ { "Name": "spotify", "Status": "running" }, { "Name": "chrome", "Status": "running" }, { "Name": "DWM", "Status": "running" }, ] 

Is there a trick on how to concatenate the if() inside the foreach() to get the desired JSON format?

Thank you!