Question

So I have got a file which contains lines like this :

Peter Nagy 3 4 6 7 4

I need a Power shell script which asks the user to give a name, and it maths out the avarage of thoose numbers next to that name. Please help 🙂

$name1 = read-host 
$content = Get-Content test.txt
$talalt = $content | Where-Object { $_ -match  $name1 }

I have no idea what to do after this, and how to get out of thoose numbers from that string.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You basically need to select from the first digit to the end of the line, split out the individual numbers and then average them e.g.:

$content | Where-Object { $_ -match  $name1 } | 
   Foreach {if ($_ -match '\D+(\d.*)') {-split $matches[1] | measure -average }}