Private/Get-IniContent.ps1
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function Get-IniContent { <# .Synopsis Gets the content of an INI file .Description Gets the content of an INI file and returns it as a hashtable .Notes Author : Oliver Lipkau <oliver@lipkau.net> Blog : http://oliver.lipkau.net/blog/ Source : https://github.com/lipkau/PsIni http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/ea40c1ef-c856-434b-b8fb-ebd7a76e8d91 Version : 1.0 - 2010/03/12 - Initial release 1.1 - 2014/12/11 - Typo (Thx SLDR) Typo (Thx Dave Stiff) #Requires -Version 2.0 .Inputs System.String .Outputs System.Collections.Hashtable .Parameter FilePath Specifies the path to the input file. .Example $FileContent = Get-IniContent "C:\myinifile.ini" ----------- Description Saves the content of the c:\myinifile.ini in a hashtable called $FileContent .Example $inifilepath | $FileContent = Get-IniContent ----------- Description Gets the content of the ini file passed through the pipe into a hashtable called $FileContent .Example C:\PS>$FileContent = Get-IniContent "c:\settings.ini" C:\PS>$FileContent["Section"]["Key"] ----------- Description Returns the key "Key" of the section "Section" from the C:\settings.ini file .Link Out-IniFile #> [CmdletBinding(ConfirmImpact = 'Medium')] [OutputType([System.Collections.Hashtable])] Param( [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true,HelpMessage = 'Path and Filename to the ini file to be read',Mandatory = $true)] [string]$FilePath ) Begin { Write-Verbose -Message '|=> ************************************************************************ <=|' Write-Verbose -Message (Get-Date).ToShortDateString() Write-Verbose -Message (' Starting: {0}' -f $MyInvocation.Mycommand) #display PSBoundparameters formatted nicely for Verbose output $NL = "`n" # New Line $HTab = "`t" # Horizontal Tab [string]$pb = ($PSBoundParameters | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-String).TrimEnd() Write-Verbose -Message "Parameters used by the function... $NL$($pb.split($NL).Foreach({"$($HTab*4)$_"}) | Out-String) $NL" } Process { Write-Verbose -Message "$($myInvocation.MyCommand.Name):: Processing file: $PSBoundParameters['FilePath']" $ini = @{} switch -regex -file $PSBoundParameters['FilePath'] { '^\[(.+)\]$' # Section { $section = $matches[1] $ini[$section] = @{} $CommentCount = 0 } '^(;.*)$' # Comment { if (!($section)) { $section = 'No-Section' $ini[$section] = @{} } $value = $matches[1] $CommentCount = $CommentCount + 1 $name = 'Comment' + $CommentCount $ini[$section][$name] = $value } '(.+?)\s*=\s*(.*)' # Key { if (!($section)) { $section = 'No-Section' $ini[$section] = @{} } $name, $value = $matches[1..2] $ini[$section][$name] = $value } } Write-Verbose -Message "$($myInvocation.MyCommand.Name):: Finished Processing file: $PSBoundParameters['FilePath']" Return $ini } End { Write-Verbose -Message "Function $($MyInvocation.InvocationName) finished reading content from $PSBoundParameters['FilePath'] file." Write-Verbose -Message '' Write-Verbose -Message '-------------------------------------------------------------------------------' Write-Verbose -Message '' } } |