Powershell: Find/Replace pattern of ASCII control characters

Question

I\'m trying to write a script to search the contents of a file, and when it comes across a grouping of ASCII control characters, to insert a CR/LF.

The pattern of ch

Answer 1

I have a function in a script that does something like this. Not sure if this will help you:

# This function will make a new file that has custom comments
# it will comment out "rollback tran"
# it will uncomment out "--commit tran"
function CommentAndUncomment($TheScript)
{
    PrintTextAndTime("About to run this SQL file: $TheScript")
    PrintTextAndTime("Will comment out 'rollback tran' and uncomment '--commit tran'")
    $content = Get-Content $TheScript
    $content | 
      ForEach-Object { 
        if ($_ -clike "*ROLLBACK TRAN;*") { 
          $_ -replace "ROLLBACK TRAN;", "--ROLLBACK TRAN;"
        } 
        elseif ($_ -clike "*--COMMIT TRAN;*") { 
          $_ -replace "--COMMIT TRAN;", "COMMIT TRAN;"
        }
        else{
            $_
        }
      } | 
      Set-Content $ModifiedCommentsFile
    echo $ModifiedCommentsFile
    sqlcmd -i $ModifiedCommentsFile
    del $ModifiedCommentsFile
}