Does powershell have associative arrays?

Question

I am writing a function that returns an id, name pair.

I would like to do something like

$a = get-name-id-pair() $a.Id $a.Name 

like is possible in javascript. Or at least

$a = get-name-id-pair() $a["id"] $a["name"] 

like is possible in php. Can I do that with powershell?

Answer 1

also

$a = @{'foo'='bar'} 

or

$a = @{} $a.foo = 'bar' 

Answer 2

Yes. Use the following syntax to create them

$a = @{} $a["foo"] = "bar"