Src/OrderedHash.psm1
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# Various OrderedDictionary Implementations # with Initialization at declaration time. # The OrderedHash is the recomended one! using namespace System.Collections.Specialized function orderedAppender { return [Ordered]@{ } } class OrderedHash: OrderedDictionary { OrderedHash([Scriptblock]$plainText) { foreach ($line in ($plainText -split [Environment]::NewLine).trim()) { if (-not $line) { continue } [String]$key, [String]$value = $line.split([Char]61).trim() $value = Invoke-Expression($value) $this.add($key, $value) } } } class UtilityHelper { static [OrderedDictionary]arrayToOrderedDict([Array]$arrayOfHashes) { $sortedDictionary = New-Object OrderedDictionary $arrayOfHashes | ForEach-Object { $item = $_.GetEnumerator() $item.MoveNext() $sortedDictionary[$item.key] = $item.value } return $sortedDictionary } } return # Examples $colors = (orderedAppender) + @{ variable = [ConsoleColor]::Magenta } + @{ equals = [ConsoleColor]::Darkgray } + @{ value = [ConsoleColor]::Yellow } $colors = [UtilityHelper]::arrayToOrderedDict(( @{ variable = [ConsoleColor]::Magenta }, @{ equals = [ConsoleColor]::Darkgray }, @{ value = [ConsoleColor]::Yellow } )) $colors = [OrderedHash]{ variable = [ConsoleColor]::Magenta equals = [ConsoleColor]::Darkgray value = [ConsoleColor]::Yellow } Write-Host ($colors | Format-List | Out-String) |