Powershell Array for Path

Question

We are trying to break the following Path from the text file, the path is dynamic in length, i.e, it can be ABC\DSD\AAR\ARE or ABC\DSD.

So we need a solution to break down the path as per the following example.

ABC\DSD\AAR

to

ABC$
ABC\\DSD$
ABC\\DSD\\AAR\\*

The Last element should end with \\*. However all parent elements will end with $ and it should increment until last element is reached and write to file via Out-File module.

May we ask your help to solve this problem through Powershell?

Thank you,

Rokr1

Lieven Keersmaekers · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-05T13:05:29.693

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Following would do

$x = ""; ("ABC\DSD\AAR" -split '\\' | % {$x = "$($x)$($_)\"; $x -replace '\\$', '$'}) -join " " -replace '\$$', '\*'

or a bit more longwinded

$x = ""
("ABC\DSD\AAR" -split '\\' | 
    Foreach-Object  {
        $x = "$($x)$($_)\"
        $x -replace '\\$', '$'
    }
) -join " " -replace '\$$', '\*'

edited Jun 05 '18 at 13:05

answered Jun 05 '18 at 10:06

Lieven Keersmaekers

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Thank you Mr. Lieven, That works, however there are list of paths like $i = @('ABC\DSD\AAR','ABC\ZRS\ASK','KAS\DSR\BBX') also the output should be; ABC$ #Line 1 ABC\\DSD$ #Line 2 ABC\\DSD\\AAR\\* #Line 3 All in new line – rokr1 Jun 06 '18 at 04:57
@rokr1 - `$x="";$x=("ABC\DSD\AAR" -split '\\' | % {$x = "$($x)$($_)";"$($x)$";$x = "$($x)\\"});$x[-1]=$x[-1] -replace '\$$', '\\*';$x` – Lieven Keersmaekers Jun 06 '18 at 05:34
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Okay Adding Function works [array]$i = @('abc\abd\ssd','add\frd\sdr') function getdata($s){ $x = "" (($s -split '\\' | % {$x = "`n$($x)$($_)\"; $x -replace '\\$', '$'}) -join " " -replace '\$$', '\*') -replace '\\', '\\'; } foreach($s in $i ){ getdata($s) } – rokr1 Jun 06 '18 at 05:49

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