Does powershell have associative arrays?

Question

I am writing a function that returns an id, name pair.

I would like to do something like

$a = get-name-id-pair()
$a.Id
$a.Name

like

Answer 1

You can also do this:

function get-faqentry { "meaning of life?", 42 }
$q, $a = get-faqentry 

Not associative array, but equally as useful.

-Oisin