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Asked: 2026-06-05T11:49:11+00:00

I have some reports in html file. I need to place them to excel

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I have some reports in html file. I need to place them to excel and make some changes, so I thought I could do those changes beforehand using powershell. Some of the lines are in fixed places, others are not so I need to delete them by making the script recognize a pattern.

Fixed lines starting from top: 12-14,17,19,25-27,30-32,40-42
Fixed lines starting from bottom: 3-13, 48-60

The pattern I need to find and delete, is this:

<td align="center">random string</td>
<td align="left">random string</td>
<td align="left">random string</td>
<td align="left">random string</td>
<td align="right">random string</td>

For the fixed lines I found I can do this:

(gc $maindir\Report23.HTML) | ? {(12..14) -notcontains $_.ReadCount} | out-file $maindir\Report23b.HTML

It works as it deletes the lines 12-14 but I need to put the rest of the fixed line numbers in the same command and I can’t seem to figure out how. Also the output file’s filesize is twice the original’s, which I find weird. I tried using set-content which produces a filesize close to the original but breaks the text encoding in certain parts.

I have no idea how to go about for recognizing the pattern though…

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  1. Editorial Team

    The output file’s filesize is twice the original because the original file was probably ASCII-encoded, the new file is per default Unicode-encoded. Try this:

    $length = (gc $maindir\Report23.HTML).length
$rangefrombottom = ($length-60)..($length-48)+($length-13)..($length-3)
$rangefromtop = 12..14+17,19+25..27+30..32+40..42
(gc $maindir\Report23.HTML) | ? {$rangefromtop -notcontains $_.ReadCount} | ? {$rangefrombottom -notcontains $_.ReadCount} | out-file -encoding ASCII $maindir\Report23b.HTML
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