Replace specific letters and word in a text file

Good Afternoon, I am trying to create script that will take file, read each line, replace a specific word/letter, then output that line to new file but having trouble replacing the words/letters. ...

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AndySvints

Feb 04, 2023

Hello Hjb118,

You can achieve needed result with one foreach loop:

$filePath = ".\input.txt"
$newFilePath = "output.txt"

$configurationData = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary"[String,String]"
$configurationData.add("<Password>","blah")
$configurationData.add("<A>","0")
$configurationData.add("<x>","0")

$replacementlist = @("<Password>","<A>","<x>")

$InputData=Get-Content $filePath
foreach($key in $replacementlist){
    $InputData=$InputData -replace $key,$configurationData.item($key)
}
$InputData | Out-file $newFilePath

Input:

Output:

Hope that helps.

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