I want to split a string from : to \n in Powershell script - regex

Question

I am using a config file that contains some information as shown below.
User1:xyz#gmail.com
User1_Role:Admin
NAME:sdfdsfu4343-234324-ffsdf-34324d-dsfhdjhfd943
ID:xyz#abc-demo-test-abc-mssql
Password:rewrfsdv34354*fds*vdfg435434
I want to split each value from*: to newline* in my Powershell script.
I am using -split '[: \n]' it matches perfectly until there is no '' in the value. If there is an '*' it will fetch till that. For example, for Password, it matches only rewrfsdv34354. Here is my code:
$i = 0
foreach ($keyOrValue in $Contents -split '[: *\n]') {
if ($i++ % 2 -eq 0) {
$varName = $keyOrValue
}
else {
Set-Variable $varName $keyOrValue
}
}
I need to match all the chars after : to \n. Please share your ideas.

Answer 1

It's probably best to perform two separate splits here, it makes things easier to work out if the code is going wrong for some reason, although the $i % 2 -eq 0 part is a neat way to pick up key/value.
I would go for this:
# Split the Contents variable by newline first
foreach ($line in $Contents -split '[\n]') {
# Now split each line by colon
$keyOrValue = $line -split ':'
# Then set the variables based on the parts of the colon-split
Set-Variable $keyOrValue[0] $keyOrValue[1]
}

Answer 2

You could also convert to a hashmap and go from there, e.g.:
$h = #{}
gc config.txt | % { $key, $value = $_ -split ' *: *'; $h[$key] = $value }
Or with ConvertFrom-StringData:
$h = (gc -raw dims.txt) -replace ':','=' | ConvertFrom-StringData
Now you have convenient access to keys and values, e.g.:
$h
Output:
Name Value
---- -----
Password rewrfsdv34354*fds*vdfg435434
User1 xyz#gmail.com
ID xyz#abc-demo-test-abc-mssql
NAME sdfdsfu4343-234324-ffsdf-34324d-dsfhdjhfd943
User1_Role Admin
Or only keys:
$h.keys
Output:
Password
User1
ID
NAME
User1_Role
Or only values:
$h.values
Output:
rewrfsdv34354*fds*vdfg435434
xyz#gmail.com
xyz#abc-demo-test-abc-mssql
sdfdsfu4343-234324-ffsdf-34324d-dsfhdjhfd943
Admin
Or specific values:
$h['user1'] + ", " + $h['user1_role']
Output:
xyz#gmail.com, Admin
etc.