UncommonSense.PowerShell.Utils

1.0.6

Public/Format-HashTable.ps1

# .SYNOPSIS
# Pretty-prints a (nested) hash table
function Format-HashTable 
{
    param
    (
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
        [System.Collections.IDictionary[]]$HashTable,
        
        [ValidateRange(0, [int]::MaxValue)]
        [int]$Indentation = 0
    )
    
    process
    {
        foreach ($Item in $HashTable)
        {
            foreach ($Key in $Item.Keys)
            {
                $Value = $Item["$Key"]
        
                if ($Value -is [hashtable] -or $Value -is [System.Collections.Specialized.OrderedDictionary])
                {
                    Write-Output "$(" " * $Indentation)$Key"
                    Format-HashTable -HashTable $Value -Indentation ($Indentation + 1)
                }
                else
                {
                    Write-Output "$(" " * $Indentation)$Key = $Value"
                }    
            }
        }
    }
}