How do I edited value of INI file using powershell?

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I have an INI file :

[Participant]
Kids=1000
Adult=200

[Gender]
Female=100
Male=200

I want to edit the value of section participant which is Kids to be 500

What I have tried:

I tried this code, but it return an error

Cannot index into a null array.

$input_file = Get-Content "C:\Users\testing.ini"
$input_file["Participant"]["Kids"]="500"
$input_file | Out-IniFile -Force -FilePath "C:\Users\testing.ini"

Posted 24-Mar-19 22:20pm

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Updated 24-Mar-19 22:33pm

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David_Wimbley · Answer 1 · 2019-03-24T22:32:00

If you notice,

$input_file = Get-Content "C:\Users\testing.ini"

just gets the content as a string. It outputs that as simply

[Participant] Kids=1000 Adult=200  [Gender] Female=100 Male=200

I'd suggest you look at using

Script Get-IniContent[^]

Which kinda looks like what you were trying to do but Im going to guess, you got an error saying something like "is not a cmdlet" or whatever the error is.

You'll probably need to look at this script also.

Script Out-IniFile[^]

RickZeeland · Answer 2 · 2019-03-24T22:34:00

Solution 2

See article here: Use PowerShell to Work with Any INI File | Scripting[^]

Posted 24-Mar-19 22:34pm

RickZeeland