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1

Hello,

I have a script to put these numbers in order

1=mkelley@company.com
2=jbruce@company.com
3=oreynolds@company.com
4=JSTACK@company.com
5=Dwu@company.com
1433=mkuss@company.com
1434=ayoloye@company.com
1435=tonierras@company.com
1436=sgoldsborough@company.com
1437=pbeavers@company.com
1438=ederengowski@company.com
1439=alippard@company.com
1440=klaw@company.com
one@company.com
three@company.com

so that it looks like

1=mkelley@company.com
2=jbruce@company.com
3=oreynolds@company.com
4=JSTACK@company.com
5=Dwu@company.com
6=mkuss@company.com
7=ayoloye@company.com
8=tonierras@company.com
9=sgoldsborough@company.com
10=pbeavers@company.com
11=ederengowski@company.com
12=alippard@company.com
13=klaw@company.com
14=one@company.com
15=three@company.com

The problem is that the below Set-Content appends only 15=three@company.com, and deletes the original text.

    $INI_Location = "\\hqfs1\users\tantony\PowerShell\CalenderGroup\config.ini"
    $Read_INI = Get-Content $INI_Location
For($Index=0; $Index -lt $List_of_Users.length; $Index++)
            {            
                $Email = ($List_of_Users[$Index]) -creplace '^[^=]*=', ''
                $Index_Plus_One = $Index + 1
                $Re_Index = "$Index_Plus_One=$Email"
                $Re_Index | Set-Content $INI_Location -Force

                Write-Host $Re_Index
            }

Thanks,

Tony

2

You are calling Set-Content in your loop, so the last enumerated line will be set overwriting the file. Take a look at this simplified logic:

$results = foreach ($line in (Get-Content "C:\Users\Rob\Desktop\Archive\config.ini")) {
    "{0}={1}" -f $line.ReadCount, ($line -creplace '^[^=]*=', '')
}

$results | Set-Content "C:\Users\Rob\Desktop\Archive\config.ini"
3

I figured it out, thanks. I forgot to actually write the files before set-content

4

Writing powershell on less sleep, not paying attention to details :slight_smile: