PowerShell Returns

I am using PowerShell to traverse a list. PowerShell is preceding the returned values with a number, a semi-colon and a hashtag. For example, if PowerShell returns a field whose value is rhoward, it returns something that looks like this:
2;#rhoward

What do the number, semi-colon, and hashtag represent? How do I instruct PowerShell to not return them? In example above, I need the system to return the following:
rhoward

Thank you.