Getting the software unistall DisplayName from registry

Question

We are doing software housekeeping on our Windows 2003 servers in preparation to migrate to higher release
I need to retrieve the installed software from these boxes.
Instead of the if statement below, I would like to use an array as follows. Thank you in advance.
$OmitSoft = @("", "\(KB", "McAfee ", "HP ", "Service Pack", "IBM ", "Internet Explorer", .......,"VMware ")
$UninstallKey = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall"
    ForEach ($key in $SubKeys) {
        $thisKey = $UninstallKey+"\\"+$key
        $thisSubKey = $reg.OpenSubKey($thisKey)
        $DisplayName = $($thisSubKey.GetValue("DisplayName")).Trim()
        if (-not ($DisplayName -match "\(KB") -and ($DisplayName -ne "") -and ($DisplayName -match "McAfee") -and `
                 ($DisplayName -notmatch "HP ") -and ($DisplayName -notmatch "Internet Explorer")) {
            $ObjData = New-Object PsObject -Property  ([ordered]@{
               "ServerName"  = $ComputerName
               "Virtual"     = $Virtual
               "OSName"      = $DisplayName
               "OSVersion"   = $($thisSubKey.GetValue("DisplayVersion"))
               "Description" = $($thisSubKey.GetValue("Publisher"))
            Export-Csv -InputObject $ObjData -NoTypeInformation $CsvFile -Force -Append
Learning PowerShell scripting

Answer 1

While I agree with Bill and suggest you just use his script, here's an example you can build from:
$skipMe = @(1,4,7)
$numbers = 0..9
foreach ($number in $numbers) {
If (!($skipMe -contains $number)) {
$number
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