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    Hello Experts,

    I would like to know any script (preferably power shell) to remove header & footer lines from text file.
    Just to give a detail. I have following content in text file.

    ----start----
    Trace trace log for server: ServerA.Test.COM
    Windows version: 6.2.9200 (Windows Server 2012)
    Time zone: India Standard Time
    Time difference to UTC: +5:30
    Running in Terminal Services session...
      Monitoring debug output from processes running in the console session
      Monitoring debug output from processes running in the current Terminal Services session

    7    16:57:27.497     [119916]    (ProcessA)    Work1
    9    16:57:27.497     [119916]    (ProcessA)    Work2
    10    16:57:27.497     [119916]    (ProcessA)    WORK3
    11    16:57:27.497     [119916]    (ProcessA)    WORK4

    Registry info

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\YB\Aplication
    Driver   (SZ) SQL Server
    DriverVersion   (SZ) 3.50.0305
    YAcloudExporterReady   (DWORD) 1  [0x1]
    Installed Version info [E:\Program Files (x86)\Aplication]

    ---------end----------

    I would like to copy content only from line that is tab delimited (9    16:57:27.497     [119916]    (ProcessA)    Work2) till next 3 more lines have similar information to new file.

    The reason of such formatting so I can upload new file to SQL DB (I know how to do that).

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00 AM

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    Hi Pradeep,

       Are you familiar with Regular Expression? I suggest you to learn them. In this case you can do it differently.. if you want to remove the first 8 line and the last 7 is just a matter of reading the help of Get-Content cmdlet. In this case Get-Content result is an Array but with the casting you basically can use a String.Replace.

    $message = [string] (Get-Content file.txt)
$header = [string] (Get-Content file.txt -first 8)
$footer = [string] (Get-Content file.txt -tail 7)

$message = $message.replace($header,"").replace($footer,"")

    Regards

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:43 AM

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    Hi Pradeep,

       Are you familiar with Regular Expression? I suggest you to learn them. In this case you can do it differently.. if you want to remove the first 8 line and the last 7 is just a matter of reading the help of Get-Content cmdlet. In this case Get-Content result is an Array but with the casting you basically can use a String.Replace.

    $message = [string] (Get-Content file.txt)
$header = [string] (Get-Content file.txt -first 8)
$footer = [string] (Get-Content file.txt -tail 7)

$message = $message.replace($header,"").replace($footer,"")

    Regards

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:43 AM
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    Hi,

    well ... where there is a will. there is a script. This looks like a total case for regular expression (which will look like magic - the demon summoning kind, not the Gandalf-"I save the world"-kind - at first). Here's something that worked for me after copy&pasting your text example:

    Get-Content file.txt | Select-String "^(\d+)\s+(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d.\d+)\s+(\[\d+\])\s+(\(.+?\))\s+([^\s]+)$" | ForEach-Object { $_.Matches.Groups[1..4] -join "`t" }

    Cheers,
    Fred

    There's no place like 127.0.0.1

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:54 AM
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    You might use one of the techniques Dr. Tobias Weltner explains here in this video:

    Sophisitcated Techniques of Plain Text Parsing 3.926 Aufrufe

    Grüße - Best regards

    PS:> (79,108,97,102|%{[char]$_})-join''

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:31 AM