Getting all the values of a hashtables nested keys?-CodePudding

I have a Hashtable, called $Hash, This is its structure:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
NTER 1                         {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file1]}
NTER 2                         {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file2]}
NTER 3                         {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file3]}
NTER 4                         {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file4]}
LA2 1                          {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file5]}
LA2 2                          {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file6]}
LA2 3                          {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file7]}
LA2 4                          {[Short, Kill > Dump], [Long, Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file8]}

I am trying to use the value of the Long key, (which is: "Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file...") so I can use to input values to general things such as names for files:

$Var| ForEach-Object {
Copy-item -path '..\Template 2.svg' -Destination ".\($hash.keys.value).svg"
}

Doing something like $hash.'NTER 1'.keys is not an option, As there could be multiple $hash.<key> at any given time.

The expected output for the above example should be .svg files paths of:

.\Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file1.svg
.\Procces is terminated, then all errors are dumped to a log file2.svg
...

Am having general problems just accessing data from hashtables for use in other commands.

For example in the above example. I could not do $Hash.keys | ForEach-Object { as that would not give me keys such as NTER 1 LA2 1 etc but some string of (System.Collections.Specialized.OrderedDictionary.keys.value) So I had to first create $var via $Var = $Hash

but even with this roundabout doing:

$Var| ForEach-Object {
Copy-item -path '..\Template 2.svg' -Destination ".\($hash.keys.value).svg"
}

Still gives me a single file called:

.\(System.Collections.Specialized.OrderedDictionary.keys.value).svg

I've taken the liberty to cross post this question on other forums.

Any help would be great.

CodePudding user response：

If you're looking to retrieve the values of the Long-keyed entries of the nested hashtables in $hash, across all top-level entries:

$hash.Values.Long