exporting fixed length

system · May 5, 2013, 5:35am

Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstanceÂ MYPC -Database salesdatabase -Query usp_GetProductListÂ |Â Format-TABLE-autosizeÂ |Out-File C:\TEST.TXT

I am exporting a fixed lenght file… Powershell is putting in a blank space between columns. I can’t have that in my export file.

Thanks in advance.

Conan

mjolinor · May 5, 2013, 10:16am

You’re sabotaging your output with that format-table.

You need the Big Book of Powershell Gotchas.

https://powershell.org/books/the-big-book-of-powershell-gotchas-free/

Don - we need a sidebar menu with a link to that.

donj · May 6, 2013, 2:49am

LOL.

Rob’s right - Format-Table and the other Format cmdlets are intended to produce human-readable, formatted text. For a fixed-field output, you’ll probably need to write a custom function to get really accurate output.