Question

need some help with building a powershell script to help with some basic string manipulation. I know just enough powershell to get in trouble, but can’t figure out the syntax or coding to make this work.

I have a text file that looks like this –

Here is your list of servers:
server1
server2.domain.local
server3
Total number of servers: 3

I need to take that text file and drop the first and last lines (Always first and last.) Then I need to take every other line and basically turn it into a CSV file.

The final output should be a text file that looks like this –

server1,server2.domain.local,server3

Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can try :

$a = Get-Content C:\temp\M.TXT # Where M.TXT is your original file
$a[1..($a.count-2)] | % {$s=""} {$s+=$_+","}{$s.trim(",") | Out-File m.csv} # M.CSV is the result file