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Abisek S
Abisek S

Reputation: 55

How to declare a System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary in powershell

In Powershell I need to pass an input to a method of type System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary[string, system.object].

Could someone please help me with a sample code on how IDictionary[string,system.object] could be declared and value is set to it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6472

Answers (2)

Boggin
Boggin

Reputation: 3414

Another way to that given in Andrey Marcheuk's answer.

$dict = [System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[string,object]]::new()

A less expressive way but quite concise is an empty hashtable.

$dict = @{}

From which follows a way to set up data.

$dict = @{"badger"="Mustelidae"; "tiger"="Panthera"; "snake"="Serpentes"}

A single value can be added or updated.

$dict.badger = "Mustelidae"

Upvotes: 3

Andrey Marchuk
Andrey Marchuk

Reputation: 13483

Something like:

$dict = New-Object 'system.collections.generic.dictionary[[string],[object]]

Upvotes: 2

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