INI file parsing in PowerShell

Question

I\'m parsing simple (no sections) INI file in PowerShell. Here code I\'ve came up with, is there any way to simplify it?

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Answer 1

This is really an extension to the current answer (couldn't seem to append a comment).

I messed around with this to do rudimentary handling of integers and decimals...

function Parse-IniFile ($file)
{
  $ini = @{}
  switch -regex -file $file
  {
    #Section.
    "^\[(.+)\]$"
    {
      $section = $matches[1].Trim()
      $ini[$section] = @{}
      continue
    }
    #Int.
    "^\s*([^#].+?)\s*=\s*(\d+)\s*$"
    {
      $name,$value = $matches[1..2]
      $ini[$section][$name] = [int]$value
      continue
    }
    #Decimal.
    "^\s*([^#].+?)\s*=\s*(\d+\.\d+)\s*$"
    {
      $name,$value = $matches[1..2]
      $ini[$section][$name] = [decimal]$value
      continue
    }
    #Everything else.
    "^\s*([^#].+?)\s*=\s*(.*)"
    {
      $name,$value = $matches[1..2]
      $ini[$section][$name] = $value.Trim()
    }
  }
  $ini
}