Construct Hash Table from two arrays

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Hi Folks,

I have two distinct arrays which I want to pair up in a hash table. So the first array would represent all the keys in the hash table. The second array the matching values.

There are 24 items in each list and they are ordered.

I haven’t been able to find any examples of this and I am wondering if it is possible?

$teams = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=2016/teams/index.html'
$teamName = ($teams.ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName('span') | Where{ $_.className -eq 'team-name_name'}).innerText

Sample of returned values . . .

Albania
Austria
Belgium

$teamURL = ($teams.ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName('a') | 
  Where{ $_.className -eq 'team-hub_link'}).pathname -replace '//', 'http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/'
$teamID0 = $teamURL -replace '//uefaeuro/season=2016/teams/team=', ''
$teamID = ($teamID0 -replace '/index.html', '') -replace 'http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/uefaeuro/season=2016/teams/team='
$teamID

Sample of returned values . . .

2
8
13

Can these values create this table programmatically?

 $table = @{
        'Albania' = '2';
        'Austria' = '8';
        'Belgium' = '13';}

Thanks,

Michael

2

Sure. If you’re certain the arrays have the same number of elements (and you should probably have code check for that first, just in case), you can just use a for loop:

$table = @{}
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $teamName.Count; $i++)
{
    $table[$teamName[$i]] = $teamID[$i]
}
3

Thanks Dave, yes that does it.

I get initializing the empty table and the iteration parameters that follow.

But looking within the script blocks. It’s beautifully simplistic and I would have never thought the hash table variable $table could be manipulated like that.

Thanks,

Michael