How to get status of “Invoke-Expression”, successful or failed?

Question

Invoke-Expression will return all the text of the command being invoked.

But how can I get the system return value of whether this command has been exec

Answer 1

$LASTEXITCODE cannot be used with Invoke-Expression, as it will be zero regardless of whether the expression invoked succeeds or fails:

PS C:\Users\myUserAccount> touch temp.txt
PS C:\Users\myUserAccount> Invoke-Expression "Remove-Item .\temp.txt"
PS C:\Users\myUserAccount> echo $LASTEXITCODE
0

PS C:\Users\myUserAccount> Invoke-Expression "Remove-Item .\temp.txt"
Remove-Item : Cannot find path 'C:\Users\myUserAccount\temp.txt' because it does not 
exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ Remove-Item .\temp.txt
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (C:\Users\myUserAccount\temp.txt:String) [Remove-Item], ItemNotFoundException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

PS C:\Users\myUserAccount> echo $LASTEXITCODE
0