Create a list of paired string values in PowerShell

Question 1

For a project I am doing, I need to check and see if a pair of strings are present in a line from a file.

I have tried to use a hash table like this:

$makes = 'Ferrari', 'Ford', 'VW', 'Peugeot', 'Subaru'
$models = 'Enzo', 'Focus', 'Golf', '206', 'Impreza'

$table = @{}

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $makes.Length; $i++)
{
    $table.Add($makes[$i], $models[$i])
}

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$makes = 'Ferrari', 'Ford', 'VW', 'Peugeot', 'Subaru'

$models = 'Enzo', 'Focus', 'Golf', '206', 'Impreza'

$table = @{}

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $makes.Length; $i++)

{

$table.Add($makes[$i], $models[$i])

}

This works well until I try to insert a duplicate make. I quickly found out that hash tables do not accept duplicates.

So is there a way of creating a double list of strings in PowerShell? It is very easy to do in C# , but i have found no way of achieving it in PowerShell.

Question 2

With minimal changes to your code and logic:

$makes = 'Ferrari', 'Ford', 'VW', 'Peugeot', 'Subaru'
$models = 'Enzo', 'Focus', 'Golf', '206', 'Impreza'

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $makes.Length; $i++){
    [array]$cars += New-Object psobject -Property @{
        make  = $makes[$i]
        model = $models[$i]

    }
}

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$makes = 'Ferrari', 'Ford', 'VW', 'Peugeot', 'Subaru'

$models = 'Enzo', 'Focus', 'Golf', '206', 'Impreza'

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $makes.Length; $i++){

[array]$cars += New-Object psobject -Property @{

make = $makes[$i]

model = $models[$i]

}

This uses custom psobject, cast to an array so that += is allowed.

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