Format-Hashtable
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### Synopsis
Takes an creates a script to recreate a hashtable

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### Description

Allows you to take a hashtable and create a hashtable you would embed into a script.

Handles nested hashtables and indents nested hashtables automatically.

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### Related Links
* [about_hash_tables](about_hash_tables.md)

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### Examples
Corrects the presentation of a PowerShell hashtable

```PowerShell
[Ordered]@{Foo='Bar';Baz='Bing';Boo=@{Bam='Blang'}} | Format-Hashtable
```

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### Parameters
#### **InputObject**
The hashtable or PSObject that will be written as a PowerShell Hashtable

|Type        |Required|Position|PipelineInput                 |
|------------|--------|--------|------------------------------|
|`[PSObject]`|false   |1       |true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)|

#### **AsScriptBlock**
Returns the content as a script block, rather than a string

|Type      |Required|Position|PipelineInput|
|----------|--------|--------|-------------|
|`[Switch]`|false   |named   |false        |

#### **AsPSObject**
If set, will return the hashtable and all nested hashtables as custom objects.

|Type      |Required|Position|PipelineInput|
|----------|--------|--------|-------------|
|`[Switch]`|false   |named   |false        |

#### **Sort**
If set, items in the hashtable will be sorted alphabetically

|Type      |Required|Position|PipelineInput|
|----------|--------|--------|-------------|
|`[Switch]`|false   |named   |false        |

#### **ExpandCredential**
If set, credentials will be expanded out into a hashtable containing the username and password.

|Type      |Required|Position|PipelineInput|
|----------|--------|--------|-------------|
|`[Switch]`|false   |named   |false        |

#### **Compress**
If set, the outputted hashtable will not contain any extra whitespace.

|Type      |Required|Position|PipelineInput|
|----------|--------|--------|-------------|
|`[Switch]`|false   |named   |false        |

#### **Safe**
If set, will embed ScriptBlocks as literal strings,
so that the resulting hashtable could work in data language mode.

|Type      |Required|Position|PipelineInput|
|----------|--------|--------|-------------|
|`[Switch]`|false   |named   |false        |

#### **Depth**
The maximum depth to enumerate.
Beneath this depth, items will simply be returned as $null.

|Type     |Required|Position|PipelineInput|
|---------|--------|--------|-------------|
|`[Int32]`|false   |named   |false        |

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### Outputs
* [string]

* [ScriptBlock]

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### Syntax
```PowerShell
Format-Hashtable [[-InputObject] <PSObject>] [-AsScriptBlock] [-AsPSObject] [-Sort] [-ExpandCredential] [-Compress] [-Safe] [-Depth <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>]
```