Import information out of files

.NET formatted file

CLI aka Common Language Infrastructure is an XML-based representation of an object or objects and stored in a file. When importing, the .Net object structure is preserved

$object = Import-Clixml -Path ".\example.xml"

List the data types of an object

$object | Get-Member | select -ExpandProperty TypeName -Unique

List the members of an object

$object | Get-Member

Count the elements of the object

$object.Count

Plain text file

Import all lines from a plaintext file

$lines = Get-Content -Path ".\example.txt"

Import only a specific line or range of lines from a plaintext file:

$line26      = (Get-Content -Path ".\example.txt")[25]
$line23til26 = (Get-Content -Path ".\example.txt")[22..25]

• -TotalCount speeds up the commands by only loading the first 26 lines.

$line26      = (Get-Content -Path ".\example.txt" -TotalCount 26)[25]
$line23til26 = (Get-Content -Path ".\example.txt" -TotalCount 26)[22..25]

Count the number of lines:

$lines.Count

Import data out of plaintext files

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