Vista - Array indexing: Want to say "Item #2 through the rest of the array."

Let's say I have a text file called 'GetContentTest.txt' with the
number 1 through 10 in it with each number on its own line.

I'd like to skip over line 1 and just read lines 2 through 10. I know
that Get-Content does not have a parameter to start at line 2, but for
my purposes, I don't care 'cause this file will always be reasonably
small.

I *thought* I could do something like this:
PS > (gc getcontenttest.txt)[1..-1]

I know that the '1' indicates the seond row in the file and I know
that '-1' indicates the last row, but when I try to write a sequence
like this, I get:
2
1
10

That's clearly, the line at index 1, then the line at index 0, then
the line at index -1, so it appears to be going from 1 to -1
backwards. Is there a syntax that I can use to accomplish this?

This worked, but I was hoping for something more "Powershellish".
$a = gc GetContentTest.txt; $a[1..$($a.length-1)]

Thanks!

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Kevin Buchan
kevin.buchan@xxxxxx[nospam]sanders.com

In PowerShell 2.0, the Select-Object cmdlet has a -Skip parameter.

In the meantime, you can do this:

filter Skip-Object([int]$Count) {
$ObjectCount += 1
if ( $ObjectCount -gt $Count ) { $_ }
}

1..10 | Skip-Object 2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Josh Einstein

"Kevin Buchan" <kevin.buchan@xxxxxx[PlsDon'tSpam]sanders.com> wrote in
message news:atqdk4l5ottva8e67smjhnf3ileek4grj3@xxxxxx

Thanks, I like that solution!

For loops feel so "Iterative" that I tend not to remember they exist
in PoSh. :-)

I find that I try to force everything into a pipeline solution with
PowerShell.

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Kevin Buchan
kevin.buchan@xxxxxx[nospam]sanders.com


On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:31:07 -0400, "Marco Shaw [MVP]"
<marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote: