Split long text into fixed width with Powershell

[Dyumani]

hi friends,

I have the document in which the text appears continously as we see in the notepad. I want to split this long text into the fixed width of text lines so that the document looks nicely formatted. How can I do this with the Powershell ?

[Raine]

Try this:

get-content longfile.txt | select-string 2003 | out-file outfile.txt -width _____.

In the blank space, specify the lower value say 150 or 200 so that the next line of the document starts after every that(value) number of characters.

[chroma]

Go to the following link and get all the necessary details and information about splitting the file content into words.

Click here.

[ThoMas321]

One of the important factors is to remove the excess spaces. If the source data is really fixed-width, you should really remove the spaces only AFTER you’ve parsed the line.

you can use a regex split on one or more spaces- [regex] :: Split($s, ” +”)

This is fixed with data, hence it would be safer to select by substring and then trim the excess spaces.