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How to append to powershell Hashtable value?

Asked 2010-12-09T09:43:20.657
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I am interating through a list of Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server objects and adding them to a hashtable like so:

$instances = Get-Content -Path .\Instances.txt
$scripts = @{}

foreach ($i in $instances)
{
    $instance = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server $i
    foreach($login in $instance.Logins)
    {
        $scripts.Add($instance.Name, $login.Script())       
    }
}

So far so good. What I want to do now is append a string to the end of the hashtable value. So for an $instance I want to append a string to the hashtable value for that $instance. How would I do that? I have started with this, but I'm not sure if I'm on the right track:

foreach ($db in $instance.Databases)
{       
    foreach ($luser in $db.Users)
    {
        if(!$luser.IsSystemObject)
        {
            $scripts.Set_Item ($instance, <what do I add in here?>)
        }
    }
}

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The .Script() method returns a string collection. There's probably a more elegant way of doing it, but replacing

$scripts.Set_Item ($instance, <what do I add in here?>)

with

$val = $scripts[$instance]
$val.Add("text to add")
$scripts.Set_Item($instance, $val)

should work.

answered 2010-12-09T11:45:00.940

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