In PowerShell 5.1, I am reading a JSON file into an array of objects and sorting them descending order by one property, but when I use a single statement, the sort does not save to the final variable. Breaking it into two statements works and I am curious why one works while the other doesn’t.

Here is my code:

WORKS:

$versions = Get-Content $jsonFilePath | Out-String | ConvertFrom-Json
$versions = $versions | Sort-Object -Descending -Property Version

NO WORKIE:

$versions = Get-Content $jsonFilePath | Out-String | ConvertFrom-Json | Sort-Object -Descending -Property Version