Powershell get ipv4 address into a variable

Question

Is there an easy way in powershell 3.0 Windows 7 to get the local computer\'s ipv4 address into a variable?

Answer 1

Another variant using $env environment variable to grab hostname:

Test-Connection -ComputerName $env:computername -count 1 | Select-Object IPV4Address

or if you just want the IP address returned without the property header

(Test-Connection -ComputerName $env:computername -count 1).IPV4Address.ipaddressTOstring