Given an array of key-value pairs (for example read in through ConvertFrom-StringData), is there a streamlined way of turning this into a Hashtable or similar to allow quick lookup? I.e. a way not requiring me to loop through the array and manually build up the hashtable myself.

**Example data**

```
10.0.0.1=alice.example.com
10.0.0.2=bob.example.com

```

**Example usage**

```
$names = gc .\data.txt | ConvertFrom-StringData
// $names is now Object[]
$map = ?
// $map should now be Hashtable or equivalent
echo $map['10.0.0.2'] 
// Output should be bob.example.com

```

Basically what I'm looking for is a, preferably, built-in file-to-hashtable function. Or an array-to-hashtable function.

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***Note:*** As [@mjolnior](https://stackoverflow.com/a/24459726/39321) explained, I actually got hash tables, but an array of single value ones. So this was fixed by reading the file `-raw` and hence didn't require any array to hashtable conversion. Updated the question title to match that.