"Narayanan Lakshmanan [MSFT]" <narayanl@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:eJ%23w5JC3GHA.4924@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Thank you, that answers my questions
> Get-Content returns the contents of the file as a collection of strings
> (one string per line). Since you are casting the collection to a string,
> the CRLFs are lost. Instead, join can be used as shown below to obtain a
> single string.
>
> gci -i Assemblyinfo.cs -r | %{$contents=gc
> $_.FullName;doWork([system.string]::join("`r`n", $contents)) }
>
> The above will display the contents on the screen in the same way like the
> first snippet.
>
> --
> Narayanan Lakshmanan [MSFT]
> Windows PowerShell Development
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> "Mark" <mwatts at hotmail dot com> wrote in message
> news:4DBDB20F-A444-47F4-AA33-419B4C2B3C99@microsoft.com...
>>
>> Given the following:
>>
>> function doWork($fileContent)
>> {
>> write-output $fileContent
>> }
>>
>> gci . -i AssemblyInfo.cs -r | % { doWork (gc $_.FullName) }
>>
>> will result in the contents of all AssemblyInfo.cs files being dumped to
>> the screen. However, this
>>
>> function doWork([string]$fileContent)
>> {
>> write-output $fileContent
>> }
>>
>> gci . -i AssemblyInfo.cs -r | % { doWork (gc $_.FullName) }
>>
>> results in all crlf'ds being removed.
>>
>> I am trying to update version information and I have a reg-ex in 'doWork'
>> that does the updates but the problem is that whenver the results of
>> get-contents is processed as a string, all the crlf information vanishes
>> which results in corrupted files?
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> thanks
>> -mark
>>
>> --
>> -mark
>