Configuration parsing is fun

gistfile1.txt

        /// <summary>
        /// Splits up an configuration string and returns an Dictionary<string, string>
        /// (e.g. "CommandName='FilesOnly'; Directory='C:\\Test\\'" becomes 
        /// new Dictionary<string, string>
        /// {
        ///     {"commandname", "filesonly"},
        ///     {"directory", "c:\\test\\"}
        /// })
        /// </summary>
        private Dictionary<string, string> ParseString(string configurationString)
        {
            Func<string, string> sanitizeString = x => x.Trim().ToLower().Replace("'", "");

            return configurationString
                .Split(';')
                .Select(x => x.Split('='))
                .Where(x => x.Length == 2)
                .ToDictionary(x => sanitizeString(x[0]), x => sanitizeString(x[1]));
        }