Chapter 12. Managing Documents

In This Chapter:

 

Text Files

235

Binary Files

238

CSV Files

239

XML Files

241

HTML Files

251

This chapter discusses the creation and use of different document types: text files, binary files, CSV files, and XML files. Examples in this chapter include searching in files, importing and exporting data in the CSV format, as well as reading, changing, transforming, and formatting XML documents.

Text Files

For reading files, Windows PowerShell (WPS) provides the commandlet Get-Content. By default, Get-Content reads the complete file.

Listing 12.1 demonstrates the entering of a text file and the row-by-row output using the commandlet Foreach-Object.

Example 12.1. Row-wise Entering of a Text File

$file = Get-Content j:\documents\protocol.csv ...

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