Question

I am really very new to powershell. I want to use powershell to read a txt file and change it to another format.

1. Read from a txt file.
2. Format Data( remove lines, remove blank spaces in between)
3. Count of records ( “T 000000002” 9 chars)

and then write the output to a new file.

I just started powershell two days ago so I don’t know how to do this yet.

Answer 1

function Count-Object() {
    begin {
        $count = 0
    }
    process {
        $count += 1
    }
    end {
        $count
    }
}

$a= get-content .\members.txt |  
Foreach-Object { ($_  -replace '\s','') } |
Foreach-Object { ($_ -replace '-','') } |
Foreach-Object { ($_ -replace 'OP_ID','') } | 
Foreach-Object { ($_ -replace 'EFF_DT','') } |
Where-Object { $_ -ne '' }|
set-content  .\newmembers.txt

 $b = Get-Content  .\newmembers.txt |
Count-Object $b 
 "T {0:D9}" -f $b | add-content  .\newmembers.txt