Loading a PowerShell hashtable from a file?

Question

I\'ve got a file containing some data in PowerShell Object Notation:

@{ X = \'x\'; Y = \'y\' }

I\'d like to load this into a variable from

Answer 1

Starting from PowerShell 5.0 you have

Import-PowerShellDataFile

Which imports values from a .psd1-file. So the only thing you have to do is rename your file to *.psd1

Official help is here.