Drawing specific information from a file

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Hello Everyone,

This might seem a simple question however I am just trying to get my head around this. Say for example if I have a file with headers in it like names and country seperated by breaks in it and I want to filter and output just the name header

Name, Country

Kevin, UK

George, Sweden

Andrew, Germany

 

I could use a $a= Get-Content C:\temp\names.txt to pull the information from the file. Then I could use a a for each loop to trawl the file. However how does one only filter and output the specific data under the single column heading ?.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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If your files are valid CSV files you should treat them as such and use Import-Csv instead of Get-Content.

Please read the complete help including the examples to learn how to use the cmdlets you’re about to use.

Regardless of that - when you post code please format this as code using the code tag button named “PRE”. Example data should be formatted as code as well please.

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# Convert string object to object array
$data = @"
Name, Country
Kevin, UK
George, Sweden
Andrew, Germany
"@ | ConvertFrom-Csv

# Filter names
$data | Select-Object Name