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alexander7567
alexander7567

Reputation: 664

Getting full $error output with line number

I have a very large PowerShell script that when I use $error at the end of the script, I am getting a returned error, even though the Transcript is not showing one. So I have no clue where the "error" is at. Here is my setup:

$error.Clear()

# 600 lines of code

foreach ($err_msg IN $error) {
    $body += "<br><hr>"
    $body += "$err_msg"
}

It then sends that in an email to me. The issue I am having is it returns an error somewhere in the code that is not visible in Start-Transcript but I want to clean it up so its not reporting this error to me every night. If I just run $error in the console, I get line numbers for errors, but if I use the above code to log the errors, I do not get line numbers. Any way to display the full error with line numbers without using try/catch?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1775

Answers (1)

Shawn Esterman
Shawn Esterman

Reputation: 2342

You could format the errors using Select-Object and then convert it to an html table using ConvertTo-Html -Fragment

if ( $error )
{
    $ErrorTable = $Error | Select-Object -Property @(
        @{Name = 'ScriptLineNumber'; Expression = { $_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber } }
        @{Name = 'Line'            ; Expression = { $_.InvocationInfo.Line } }
        @{Name = 'Exception'       ; Expression = { $_.Exception } }
    ) | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment

    $Body += "<br><hr>"
    $Body += $ErrorTable
}

Upvotes: 4

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