PowerShell string variable within array to array variable

Question

I have a string variable like this:

$a = "{VAR1: 'value1', VAR2: 'value2', VAR3: 'value3'}"

I have found $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.ExpandString($variable) to execute string commands

Is there a way in PowerShell to get that string directly as an array?

Remko · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-13 09:25:17Z

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You can use ConvertFrom-Json for that:

$a = "{VAR1: 'value1', VAR2: 'value2', VAR3: 'value3'}"
$b = ConvertFrom-Json $a

Then you can access like this:

$b.VAR2

Or if you want an array of the values:

$MyArray = (ConvertFrom-Json $a).PSObject.Properties | select -ExpandProperty value

answered Sep 13, 2018 at 9:13

Remko

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Thanks! I was looking for something simple like that