{"id":3216,"date":"2013-07-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/19\/powertip-get-the-number-of-items-in-a-hash-table\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-get-the-number-of-items-in-a-hash-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-get-the-number-of-items-in-a-hash-table\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Get the Number of Items in a Hash Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to get the number of items in a Windows PowerShell hash table.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I find the number of key\/value pairs that a Windows PowerShell hash table contains?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Count<\/strong> property:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $hash = @{‘a’ = 1; ‘b’ = 2; ‘c’ = 3; ‘d’ = 4}<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $hash<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Name                           Value<\/p>\n

—-                           —–<\/p>\n

c                              3<\/p>\n

d                              4<\/p>\n

b                              2<\/p>\n

a                              1<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $hash.Count<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to get the number of items in a Windows PowerShell hash table.  How can I find the number of key\/value pairs that a Windows PowerShell hash table contains?  Use the Count property: PS C:\\> $hash = @{‘a’ = 1; ‘b’ = 2; ‘c’ = 3; ‘d’ = 4} PS C:\\> $hash   Name                           Value […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn how to get the number of items in a Windows PowerShell hash table.  How can I find the number of key\/value pairs that a Windows PowerShell hash table contains?  Use the Count property: PS C:\\> $hash = @{‘a’ = 1; ‘b’ = 2; ‘c’ = 3; ‘d’ = 4} PS C:\\> $hash   Name                           Value […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}