Let’s assume you want to save settings to a file in the most simplest form. Your settings may look like this:
$settings = ' Name=Weltner FirstName=Tobias ID=12 Country=Germany Conf=psconf.eu '
You could save these settings to file using Set-Content, and read them back using Get-Content.
Yet how would you parse the information so that you can access individual items? There is a cmdlet called ConvertFrom-StringData that turns your key-value pairs into a hash table:
$settings = @' Name=Weltner FirstName=Tobias ID=12 Country=Germany Conf=psconf.eu '@ $hash = $settings | ConvertFrom-StringData $hash.Name $hash.Country
