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    Greetings, 

    I have a file with: 

    Y21 M3_SWO JTAG_TDO/M3_TDO/M3_SWO Reserved 
    Y22 M3_TRSTB JTAG_TRSTB/M3_TRSTB Reserved 

    I have the following code to read  the file then try to process 
    each element on the line: 

    $a = Get-Content -Path .\pin.txt 

    foreach ($line in $a) { 
            #$element = $line.Split(" ") 
            $element = $line -split "\s+" 
            Write-Host "E1: $element[0]" 
    } 

    However the .Split or -split doesn't work? I get: 

    E1: Y21 M3_SWO JTAG_TDO/M3_TDO/M3_SWO Reserved[0] 
    E1: Y22 M3_TRSTB JTAG_TRSTB/M3_TRSTB Reserved[0] 

    I've tied to convert to a string or  pipe to Out-String on the reading, but 
    that didn't work. I also checked to see if it thinks there's a space in the line with -contain, Powershell doesn't see this as a string? Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Why is it not spliting the line variable into an array? 


    Thanks in advance for any help! 
      Zihav

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 11:10 AM

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    Simpler like this:

    PS D:\scripts> $e1,$e2,$e3,$e4 = 'Y21 M3_SWO JTAG_TDO/M3_TDO/M3_SWO Reserved' -split '\s'
PS D:\scripts> $e1,$e2,$e3,$e4
Y21
M3_SWO
JTAG_TDO/M3_TDO/M3_SWO
Reserved
PS D:\scripts>

    \_(ツ)_/

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 11:20 AM
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    Hi,

    Thanks, that good, but I need to push into an array, since in the future there could be 1..N fields and I'll need to test the $e size to figure out what to do with each line... So I'm trying to split into an array:

    But stupid me, the problem is in the Write-Host:

    Write-Host "E1: $element[0]" 

    That should be:

    Write-Host "E1: ", $element[0], " E2: ", $element[1]

    The "$element[0]" can't be inside the quotes (").... a bit of a surprise to be, this behaves more like Python than Perl....

    Thanks Again!

        Zihav

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 1:01 PM
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    So use an array.

    $arr = 'Y21 M3_SWO JTAG_TDO/M3_TDO/M3_SWO Reserved' -split '\s'

    That is all it takes.

    \_(ツ)_/

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 1:14 PM
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    You don't need the Write-Host. Try:

    "E1=" + $element[0]

    or, if you want to stick with Write-Host:

    Write-Host "E1=" $element[0]

    But, of course, jrv's proposal seems to me better.

    wizend

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 2:01 PM
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    You cannot use the "Split" method with a regular expression.  Use the "-split" operator.

    \_(ツ)_/

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 2:12 PM
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    I'd make a minor change the regex:

        $arr = 'Y21 M3_SWO JTAG_TDO/M3_TDO/M3_SWO Reserved' -split '\s+'

    . . . just in case there's more than one whitespace character separating the non-whitespace characters

    --- Rich Matheisen MCSE&I, Exchange Ex-MVP (16 years)

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 2:18 PM
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    It does? Doesn't that just return two substrings????

    How about this one (it splits on whitespace)? It's even easier!

    $arr = -split "Y21       M3_SWO JTAG_TDO/M3_TDO/M3_SWO Reserved"

    --- Rich Matheisen MCSE&I, Exchange Ex-MVP (16 years)

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 2:43 PM
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    Sorry Rich.  You are correct.

    \_(ツ)_/


    • Edited by jrv Wednesday, June 5, 2019 3:13 PM
    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 3:13 PM
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    You can use $element[0] inside quotes like this:

       "This is element zero: $($element[0])"

    --- Rich Matheisen MCSE&I, Exchange Ex-MVP (16 years)

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 3:21 PM
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    How about this?

    Get-Content -Path .\pin.txt |
    foreach { 
        $arr = -split $_
    }

    --- Rich Matheisen MCSE&I, Exchange Ex-MVP (16 years)

    Wednesday, June 5, 2019 3:22 PM
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