Vista Tutorial - output multiple arrays to file

trying to find the best way to take 3 arrays and output them to a file so
that each line would be $a1[$i], $a2[$i], $a3[$i]

im sure this is easy, but i keep tripping over it.

Thanks
Justin

Hi Justin,

This assumes that your arrays all contain the same number of elements.

$a = 1..10 ; $b = 11..20 ; $c = 21..30
foreach ( $i in (0..$a.count) ) {
Add-Content -path "arraytest.txt" `
-value "$($a[$i])`r`n$($b[$i])`r`n$($c[$i])"
}

Just one way though, bet there are dozens of other|better ways.

Cheers,
Stuart

Ahem. Or even:-

$a = 1..10 ; $b = 11..20 ; $c = 21..30
foreach ( $i in (0..($a.count -1)) ) {
Add-Content -path "arraytest.txt" `
-value "$($a[$i])`r`n$($b[$i])`r`n$($c[$i])"

}

Cheers,
Stuart

It occurred to me that there must be a simple way to combine two
arrays.
But I couldn't think of it, so wrote this very simple function that
might be of use to
someone, somewhere, someday.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
function combine-arrays ( $array1,$array2 ) {
if ($array1.count -ne $array2.count) { "Arrays are different sizes" ;
exit }
$newarray = @()
$c = $array1.count
for ( $i = 0; $i -le $c; $i++ ) {
$newarray += $array1[$i]
$newarray += $array2[$i]
}
return $newarray
}


$a = 1..10
$b = 11..20

combine-arrays $a $b
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hope it helps,

Stuart

Thanks! This was what I was looking for.


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