Quickest way to organize categorized data in a text file and convert to CSV

Question

I have a text file with hundreds of rows. Data fields and values separated by a colon and one empty line separating each data set. It looks something like this...

ico         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

$CurrentElement=[pscustomobject]@{}

#get all rows and add element list when row empty is founded
Get-Content "c:\temp\test.txt" | %{

    if ($_ -eq "")
    {
        $CurrentElement
        $CurrentElement=[pscustomobject]@{}
    }
    else
    {
       $Row=$_.split(':')
       Add-Member -InputObject $CurrentElement -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $Row[0] -Value $Row[1]
    }

}  | export-csv "c:\temp\result.csv" -notype

$CurrentElement  | export-csv "c:\temp\result.csv" -notype -Append