https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/ini-files/Recent content in Ini Files on Remko's BlogHugoen-usTue, 29 Jul 2014 15:03:08 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2014/07/29/handling-ini-files-powershell/Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:03:08 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2014/07/29/handling-ini-files-powershell/<p><img title="Ini File" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px; display: inline" alt="Ini File Icon" src="http://www.fileinfo.com/images/icons/files/128/ini-41.png" width="60" align="right" height="60" />This morning Aaron Parker was wondering if Hash Tables could be used to work with ini files:</p> <p><a href="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/image8.webp" class="glightbox thickbox" data-type="image" data-gallery="post-3527"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" title="Aaron Parker | Twitter | @stealthpuppy" style="display: inline" alt="Aaron Parker | @stealthpuppy | @remkoweijnen @msh_dave need to see if this approach works for editing INI files" src="https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/image_thumb8.webp" width="320" height="132" /></a></p> <p>I thought it was a great idea because in Hash Tables you can use the . operator to get or set a Hash Table entry. But I wondered what to do with sections in ini files. Then I got the idea to use nested Hash Tables for that.</p> <p>The result is two functions, one to read an ini file into a nested Hash Table and one function to write it back to an ini file.</p>