Foreach Loop in PowerShell Not in Order -

i working config file powershell , every time call foreach loop grab data grabs in wrong order. see below:

config.ini

[queries]  query01=stuff1  query02=stuff2  query03=stuff3  query04=stuff4 

the foreach loop:

#loads ini file data variable $inicontent = get-inicontent 'config.ini' #grabs hashtable data under [queries] section $queries = $inicontent['queries']  foreach($query in $queries.getenumerator()) {     write-host $query.name } 

i following output:

stuff1 stuff4 stuff2 stuff3 

i assuming has asynchronous processing powershell, best way handle queries config.ini file in order store them in there?

note: added number end of query (query01) testing purposes. queries not have them in final config.ini.

edit:

get-inicontent function:

function get-inicontent ($filepath) {     $ini = @{}     switch -regex -file $filepath     {         “^\[(.+)\]” # section         {             $section = $matches[1]             $ini[$section] = @{}             $commentcount = 0         }         “(.+?)\s*=(.*)” # key         {             $name,$value = $matches[1..2]             $ini[$section][$name] = $value         }     }     return $ini } 

you need change both hashtable declarations ordered dictionaries. if change

$ini = @{} 

to

$ini = [ordered]@{} 

your $ini ordered dictionay nested hashtable created at

$ini[$section] = @{} 

is still unordered hashtable. need change both of them ordered dictionaries.

function get-inicontent ($filepath) {   $ini = [ordered]@{}   switch -regex -file $filepath   {     “^\[(.+)\]” # section     {         $section = $matches[1]         $ini[$section] = [ordered]@{}         $commentcount = 0     }     “(.+?)\s*=(.*)” # key     {         $name,$value = $matches[1..2]         $ini[$section][$name] = $value     }   }   return $ini } 

edit

there convertto-ordereddictionary script on script center allows convert hashtables , arrays ordered dictionaries if don't want rewrite function.