I have a text file formatted like so:

....
Property1: Value1
Property2: Value2
Property3: Value3
....

If I run the line "$a = get-content $file", is there anyway I can use
the write-host cmdlet and retain the line breaks? Currently I get the
following:



Property1: Value1 Property2: Value2 Property3: Value3 ...


Thanks,
Chris

$a = get-content $file
$a |% {write-host $_}

"Chris" wrote:

> I have a text file formatted like so:
>
> ....
> Property1: Value1
> Property2: Value2
> Property3: Value3
> ....
>
> If I run the line "$a = get-content $file", is there anyway I can use
> the write-host cmdlet and retain the line breaks? Currently I get the
> following:
>
> Property1: Value1 Property2: Value2 Property3: Value3 ...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>

Good stuff, that'll do. Thanks again.


On Feb 3, 12:22*pm, Rob Campbell
<RobCampb...@xxxxxx> wrote:

> $a = get-content $file
> $a |% {write-host $_}
>
> "Chris" wrote:

> > I have a text file formatted like so:

>

> > ....
> > Property1: Value1
> > Property2: Value2
> > Property3: Value3
> > ....

>

> > If I run the line "$a = get-content $file", is there anyway I can use
> > the write-host cmdlet and retain the line breaks? *Currently I get the
> > following:

>

> > Property1: Value1 Property2: Value2 Property3: Value3 ...

>

> > Thanks,
> > Chris

Double check the type of $a, I'll bet it is:

41> $a.GetType().Name
Object[]

Which is probably really an array of string:

42> $a | %{$_.gettype().name}
String
String
String
String
String

My guess is that you observed the output of $a in one concatenated string by
executing something like:

"$a"

If that is the case then PowerShell will use the value of $OFS (output field
separator) to separate the elements of the array as it flattens them into
the string. You could use $OFS="," for instance to get the whole array spit
out as a single string where each element is comma separated. However if
you want to maintain the line terminators then you can set
$OFS=[Environment]::Newline.

--
Keith


"Chris" <soulxflare@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0d6b36bc-4814-437d-9ab5-18af590f9cef@xxxxxx

> Good stuff, that'll do. Thanks again.
>
>
> On Feb 3, 12:22 pm, Rob Campbell
> <RobCampb...@xxxxxx> wrote:

>> $a = get-content $file
>> $a |% {write-host $_}
>>
>> "Chris" wrote:

>> > I have a text file formatted like so:

>>

>> > ....
>> > Property1: Value1
>> > Property2: Value2
>> > Property3: Value3
>> > ....

>>

>> > If I run the line "$a = get-content $file", is there anyway I can use
>> > the write-host cmdlet and retain the line breaks? Currently I get the
>> > following:

>>

>> > Property1: Value1 Property2: Value2 Property3: Value3 ...

>>

>> > Thanks,
>> > Chris

>