Getting character count for each row in text doc

Question

I am trying to get the character count for each row in a text doc. The contents of my text doc are:

I've been trying variants of the PS script:

get-content c:\serverlist.txt | foreach-object {measure-object -character}

But the best I can get returned is:

Lines     Words     Characters Property
-------     --------     --------------   -----------
                                            0
                                            0
                                            0
                                            0
                                            0

Not sure what I'm missing here, but any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Joey · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-02 19:48:32Z

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You have to pipe directly into Measure-Object:

Get-Content c:\serverlist.txt | Measure-Object -Character

Otherwise you'd have to do either

| ForEach-Object { $_ | Measure-Object -Character }

which would be a bit of weird use of the pipeline or

| ForEach-Object { Measure-Object -Character -InputObject $_ }

which would be just about the same as the variant above.

answered Mar 2, 2010 at 19:48

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Emo Over a year ago

Perfect! Both the second and third choices give me what I'm looking for. Just didn't know the context. Thanks Johannes!

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