Parse cmdkey.exe output into PowerShell

## PowerShell to turn cmdkey.exe output into objects
## Could be used for parsing other text - uses blank line as terminator for an object but check for first field name if no blank line

## 1 liner for copy/paste into PS command line

$o = $null ; cmdkey /list | Select -skip 2 | % { $f = $_.Trim() ; if( $f -match '^\s*$' ) { if( $o ) { $o ; $o = $null } } else { if( -Not $o ) { $o = New-Object pscustomobject }; if( $f.IndexOf( ':' ) -gt 0 ) { $s = ($f -split ':' , 2).Trim() ; Add-Member -InputObject $o -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $s[0] -Value $s[-1] } else { Add-Member -InputObject $o -MemberType NoteProperty -Name 'Persistence' -Value $f } } }

## For use in scripts with vaguely meaningful variable names and formatted better

$object = $null
cmdkey /list | Select-Object -skip 2 | ForEach-Object {
    $field = $_.Trim()
    if( $field -match '^\s*$' ) {
        if( $object ) {
            $object
            $object = $null }
    } else {
        if( -Not $object ) {
            $object = New-Object pscustomobject }
            ## one field is not : delimited so have to treat as special
            if( $field.IndexOf( ':' ) -gt 0 ) {
                $splits = ($field -split ':' , 2).Trim()
                Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $splits[0] -Value $splits[-1]
        } else {
            Add-Member -InputObject $object -MemberType NoteProperty -Name 'Persistence' -Value $field
        }
    }
}