Powershell append to file not appending string

Question

I defined a function to append a title to an output file.

function appendTitle($filePath, [string]$title){

Add-Content -Path $filePath -Value "+------------------------+" 
Add-Content -Path $filePath -Value $title 
Add-Content -Path $filePath -Value "+------------------------+" 


}

The issue is that if I run it as such:

appendTitle($filePath, "Net Accounts")

But in the output file it doesn't include the $title variable but just displays:

+------------------------+

+------------------------+

So where did my variable go that I wanted to append?

Avshalom · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-08 18:48:05Z

3

It's Because you run it inside a parentheses, run it like that:

appendTitle $filepath "Net Accounts"

edited Jul 8, 2015 at 18:48

answered Jul 8, 2015 at 18:29

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TheMadTechnician Over a year ago

More info: What the function is expecting is 2 arguments, a $filepath argument, which isn't typed so it could be anything, and a $title argument which it expects to be a string. What you pass is 1 argument, which is an array of two thing, first is $filepath, and second is "Net Accounts", and no second argument at all.

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