Convert a String into a Hashtable in Powershell - string

Question

my request is a bit special but quite simple to understand.
I get a string that I would like to exploit as a hashtable but I can't, my format is quite special and I haven't been successful with methods like ConvertFrom-StringData for example.
format preview:
#{id = 04cc943e-14a8-4bf6-8601-bd6fde3cc229; name = 7.10 10-16 - 6.0 * * * * | 1 0 0 0; privileges =}
I would therefore like to be able to access the content of the name attribute.
I spent a lot of time there but without success ...
Thank you for your help

Answer 1

So you may go with a string parsing and use combination of splitting and trimming.
$text = "#{id = 04cc943e-14a8-4bf6-8601-bd6fde3cc229; name = 7.10 10-16 - 6.0 * * * * | 1 0 0 0; privileges =}"
#this is to get rid of #{}
$preparedText = $text.Substring(2,$text.Length-3)
$obj = #{}
foreach ($kv in $preparedText.Split(";")) {
#Get key from string (which is "key = value")
$key = $kv.Trim().Split("=")[0].Trim()
Write-Host "Key = $key"
#Get value from string
$value = $kv.Trim().Split("=")[1].Trim()
Write-Host "Value = $value"
#Assign key-object pair to hashtable
$obj[$key] = $value
}
Write-Host "obj.name = $($obj.name);`nobj.id = $($obj.id);`nobj.privileges = $($obj.privileges)"
Which returns:
obj.name = 7.10 10-16 - 6.0 * * * * | 1 0 0 0;
obj.id = 04cc943e-14a8-4bf6-8601-bd6fde3cc229;
obj.privileges =

Answer 2

An alternative approach is to use the convertfrom-stringdata cmdlet, documented here:
Link to official MS documentation
The ConvertFrom-StringData cmdlet converts a string that contains one or more key and value pairs into a hash table. Because each key-value pair must be on a separate line, here-strings are often used as the input format. By default, the key must be separated from the value by an equals sign (=) character.
Using the OP's example as in #Karolina Ochlik's post:
$text = "#{id = 04cc943e-14a8-4bf6-8601-bd6fde3cc229; name = 7.10 10-16 - 6.0 * * * * | 1 0 0 0; privileges =}"
#this is to get rid of #{}
$preparedText = $text.Substring(2,$text.Length-3)
# replace semicolon with newline - `n needs double quotes
$preparedText.replace(';',"`n") | ConvertFrom-StringData
This creates the output:
Name Value
---- -----
name 7.10 10-16 - 6.0 * * * * | 1 0 0 0
id 04cc943e-14a8-4bf6-8601-bd6fde3cc229
privileges
the real work is done in the single line
$preparedText.replace(';',"`n") | ConvertFrom-StringData
I hope this helps someone.