Assigning an array to a dictionary entry in Powershell

Question

I am trying to assign an array as a value to a dictionary entry as follows but its throwing exception.

$sd = New-Object 'System.Collections.Generic.SortedDictionary[int, string[]]'
$sd[0] = "Data1a", "asda";

Any idea?

Roman Kuzmin · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-11 14:53:27Z

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Use cast to [string[]]:

$sd = New-Object 'System.Collections.Generic.SortedDictionary[int, string[]]'
$sd[0] = [string[]]("Data1a", "asda")

Another options is to change the dictionary value type to object[]:

$sd = New-Object 'System.Collections.Generic.SortedDictionary[int, object[]]'
$sd[0] = "Data1a", "asda"

answered Jan 11, 2011 at 14:53

Roman Kuzmin

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2 Comments

brilliant!...i tried casting like u mentioned but i was missing the round brackets. Thanks

Works great. I like the 2nd snippet much more. Casting is dirt :D