When you use set-content Set-Content C:\test.txt "test","test1" by default the two provided strings are separated by a newline, but there is also a newline at the end of the file.
How do you ignore this newline or newline with spaces when using Get-Content?
You can remove empty line like this:
Set-Content C:\test.txt "test",'',"test1"
Get-Content c:\test.txt | ? { $_ }
However, it will remove the string in the middle as well.
Edit: Actually as I tried the example, I noticed that Get-Content ignores the last empty line added by Set-Content.
I think your problem is in Set-Content. If you use workaround with WriteAllText, it will work fine:
[io.file]::WriteAllText('c:\test.txt', ("test",'',"test1" -join "`n"))
You pass a string as second parameter. That's why I first joined the strings via -join and then passed it to the method.
Note: this is not recommended for large files, because of the string concatenation that is not efficient.
it is default behavior that Set-Content adds new line because it lets you set-content with arrays of strings and get them one per line. Anyway Get-Content ignores last "new line" (if there are no spaces behind). work around for Set-Content:
([byte[]][char[]] "test"), ([byte]13), ([byte]10) ,([byte[]][char[]] "test1") |
Set-Content c:\test.txt -Encoding Byte
or use much simplier [io.file]::WriteAllText
can you specify exact situation (or code)?
for example if you want to ignore last line when getting content it would look like:
$content = Get-Content c:\test.txt
$length = ($content | measure).Count
$content = $content | Select-Object -first ($length - 1)
but if you just do:
"test","test1" | Set-Content C:\test.txt
$content = Get-Content C:\test.txt
$content variable contains two items: "test","test1"
