Looking at the file in Notepad, all seems fine but then I use PS to Get-Content into an array, then have a For loop to examine each line and output each line to a file. The outputted content appears to be ok EXCEPT EVERY character is surounded by a space. In the file you may see something like: …

Reading a log file - EVERY character is surrounded by space

nic67 December 29, 2023, 12:44am 21

using -Encoding Unicode has fixed my problem! Many thnks to neemobeer and all the others who commented, much appreciated, Nic

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