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Dnns
Dnns

Reputation: 31

Specify line length powershell

I need to specify the line lenght with powershell. I have a source file with lines with different line lenghts and i need to export them to a new file with all the same line lengths, 470. I found a command but this will add some with spaces in front of the line and i need to add the spaces at the end of the line.

$sourcefile = '.\file.txt'
foreach ($row in $sourcefile) {
$row = [string]::Format("{0,469}",$row) | out-file '.\newfile.txt' -append }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 462

Answers (1)

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 109045

Use a negative number to specify left alignment in a given space.

Eg.

'#{0,-10}#' -f 43

outputs:

#43        #

Upvotes: 3

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