Hash Table Manipulation

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1

Hi all

Not sure if you can help me please?

I have a hash table in the following format, which is dynamically created:

$standardADParm = @{“city” = $city
“EmployeeID” = $employeeID
“Fax” = $fax
“givenname” = $givenName
“MobilePhone” = $mobilePhone
“OfficePhone” = $officePhone
“PostalCode” = $postalCode
“State” = $state
“StreetAddress” = $streetAddress
“surname” = $surname
“Title” = $title
}

How to I remove items that are blank as I’m then splatting this into a set-aduser and as you know any blank items will cause an issue. eg how do I check for blank values and then remove the corresponding key?

Thanks

Baz

2 
$city      = 'New York'
$givenName = 'Sam'

$standardADParm = @{
    city          = $city
    EmployeeID    = $employeeID
    Fax           = $fax
    givenname     = $givenName
    MobilePhone   = $mobilePhone
    OfficePhone   = $officePhone
    PostalCode    = $postalCode
    State         = $state
    StreetAddress = $streetAddress
    surname       = $surname
    Title         = $title
}

$NonBlankKeys = $standardADParm.GetEnumerator().Name | ? { $standardADParm.$_ }

if ($NonBlankKeys) {
    $Prop1 = $NonBlankKeys | select -First 1
    $newADParam = @{ $Prop1 = (Get-Variable $Prop1).Value }
    if ($NonBlankKeys.count -gt 1) {
        1..($NonBlankKeys.count-1) | % {
             $newADParam.Add($NonBlankKeys[$_],(Get-Variable $NonBlankKeys[$_]).Value)
        }
    }
    $newADParam
}
3

Try this Quick and easy way!

[String[]]$keys = $standardADParm.GetEnumerator().Name

foreach($kee in $keys){
    If ($standardADParm.Item("$kee") -eq ""){$standardADParm.Remove("$kee")}   
}
4

nice Awn!

$standardADParm.GetEnumerator().Name | % {
    If (!$standardADParm.Item($_)){ $standardADParm.Remove($_) }   
}

So Barry, simply use the GetEnumerator method to list the hash table keys, and the Remove method to weed out those with blank values…

5

Hi guys

Many thanks for your help!

Naw your solution works perfectly many thanks.

Baz