by fazlook at 2013-01-17 13:46:35
Hello,by DonJ at 2013-01-17 15:37:39
I need to find some strings in XML file and replace them with empty "" string. How can I do that and save back the file ?
Need to find c/o and replace it with ""
I have this so far :
$xml = [xml](Get-Content "c:\1.xml")
$Contract = $xml.T550.specimen.contract
$Contract
$annuitantLastName = $Contract[0].annuitantLastName
$annuitantLastName
if ($annuitantLastName -match "c/o")
{
here need to replace then save
}
example of contract field:
contractNumber : 2
annuitantSIN : 1111111
annuitantSalutation :
annuitantFirstName : c/oDenise
annuitantLastName : whatever
annuitantAddress1 : 535 c/oBoul whatever
annuitantAddress2 : This That
annuitantCity : ummmm
annuitantProvince : USc/0
annuitantPostalCode : j4534
The XML object will have a Save() method. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library … ve(v=vs.80).aspxby fazlook at 2013-01-18 05:51:15
But how can I replace a string inside a big string ? I used -replace but did not save the result back to my fileby DonJ at 2013-01-18 06:18:21
When you cast something as [xml], it isn’t a big string. You’ll need to use the methods of the XMLDocument class to obtain the node you’re after and change its value. You won’t use -replace. So something like $Contract[0].annuitantLastName = ‘new value’.by fazlook at 2013-01-18 06:54:04
Hi Don, I dont want to replace a value , I just want to delete strings like c/o or d/y …stuff like that…by DonJ at 2013-01-18 07:37:03
I did rename my xml file as .txt and the following worked :
($xm = Get-Content "g:\1.xml.txt") | Foreach-Object {
$_ -replace "c/o","" `
-replace "&",""
} | Set-Content ‘g:\1.txt’
but when I name it back to 1.xml it wont load …
So, you’re replacing & with a blank. The ampersand is used within XML to escape illegal characters, so it’s possible that in removing the & you’ve broken the XML. Without seeing the entire original XML (please don’t post it here, though) I couldn’t tell you if that was the case or not.