I have a powershell script in which I do the following
$somePSObjectHashtables = New-Object Hashtable[] $somePSObject.Length;
$somePSObjects = Import-CSV $csvPath
0..($somePSObject.Length - 1) | ForEach-Object {
$i = $_;
$somePSObjectHashtables[$i] = @{};
$somePSObject[$_].PSObject.Properties | ForEach-Object {
$somePSObjectHashtables[$i][$_.Name] = $_.Value;
}
}
I need to do this because I want to make several distinct copies of the data in the CSV to perform several distinct manipulations. In a sense I'm performing an "INNER JOIN" on the resulting array of PSObject. I can easily iterate through $somePSObjectHashtables
with a ForEach-Object and call Hashtable.Clone() on each member of the array. I can then use New-Object PSObject -Property $someHashTable[$i]
to get a deep copy of the PSObject.
My question is, is there some easier way of making the deep copy, without an intermediary Hashtable?