Made a change to an existing PowerShell script, then ran into this error: Unable to index into an object of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList

If ((Get-PSSnapIn -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null )
{ Add-PSSnapIn -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell }

$web = Get-SPWeb "http://sharepointed.com/sitename"
$listTask = $web.Lists["My List"]
$sItem = $listTask.GetItemById(9)

$title = $listTask["Title"]

In the script, you will notice that I’m trying to capture the title of the item. The above script wasn’t working because I failed work with this list item, instead I was trying to work with the list object.

Correct script:

If ((Get-PSSnapIn -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null )
{ Add-PSSnapIn -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell }

$web = Get-SPWeb "http://sharepointed.com/sitename"
$listTask = $web.Lists["My List"]
$sItem = $listTask.GetItemById(9)

$title = $sItem["Title"]