Replace entire ini-section

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Hi,

i have an *.ini config file for an 3rd party application, that has to be maintained whenever a Windows user login name changes - which happens after he or she switches the division within the department, gets married or divorced - or when he or she joins the or leaves the department.

With Sapien POSH Studio i’ve written a tool, that should be able to edit only the user section of this config file. So far i’m reading the section into a table and bind it to an editable gridview. I can change, add or remove lines.

I’ve thought a lot about changing single entries and so on, but thats to much fiddling because keys as well as values may change, be removed or added. Example:

[TerminalServerUser]
USR44WTH=8000HWTHA
USR447EEU=8000HEEUS
…

Now, how do I replace an entire section within the config file with the content of the table?

Thanks in advance for any input

Sascha

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There are many solutions that talk about managing INI files with Powershell, for instance:

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Thanks Rob, but the general basics with ini files was not the question. I was asking if someone knows a faster way than removing each key one by one from the hash table’s section…

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I was asking if someone knows a faster way than removing each key one by one from the hash table's section...

Here is a great blog on hashtables:

Here is a something to start with:

$TerminalServerUser = @{}
$TerminalServerUser.Add('Param1', 'Value1')
$TerminalServerUser.Add('Param2', 'Value2')

$newStuff = @{}
$newStuff.Add('Param3', 'Value3')
$newStuff.Add('Param4', 'Value4')

$TerminalServerUser.Clear()

$TerminalServerUser = $newStuff.Clone()

$TerminalServerUser