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

I'm not exactly sure what your source data looks like, or what your goal is. What exactly are you parsing for? Can you post a sample of the file? As-is, it looks like you're just concatenating carriage returns to the existing lines of the file and replacing \ with \.

Nor certain why you're using $_.ToString() since $_ is already a string object output by Get-Content.

Is the goal just to take a file containing a bunch of name=value pairs, and convert that to a hashtable? That's what ConvertFrom-StringData does, although that cmdlet is only available in the preview of PowerShell v2.

If your file looks like...

key1=value1
key2=value2
key3=value3

Then all you should need is

ConvertFrom-StringData (Get-Content .\deploy.ini)

I'm not sure I understand why you're tacking on extra carriage returns. There's also no need to use the -Begin and -End parameters, at least not as far as I can see from what you've posted.