I’m trying to avoid the apparent mess that is the .NET Core querystring parsing classes for now, yes.

For a given string: $data = 'id=1&name=neil&language=powershell'

I’d like to get a hashtable that looks like this:

@{
   id = 1
   name = 'neil'
   language = 'powershell'
}

I’ve tried this:

$data -split '&' | ConvertFrom-StringData

But I actually get an array of hashtables because ConvertFrom-StringData wants a single newline-separated string. So I tried this:

$data -replace '&','n' | ConvertFrom-StringData

Which is yucky, but also doesn’t work.

Before I end up writing a for loop, is there a more PowerShell-idiomatic way to do this?