Passing arguments to $webclient.DownloadFile() in PowerShell - powershell

Question

I am using PowerShell for the first time for a small task. I have a text file on disk with file download url links.Text file has several links line by line. I want to download to disk. I tried using the following code.
$filepath = "C:\Users\User\Desktop\filelinks.txt"
$files = Get-Content $filepath
$i=0
foreach($fileurl in $files){
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$file = "C:\Users\User\Desktop\"+$i+".csv"
$webclient.DownloadFile($fileurl,$file)
$i++
}
But I get the following error
Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "Illegal characters in path."
At line:8 char:1
+ $webclient.DownloadFile($fileurl,$file)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException
The links in text file
"http://www.football-data.co.uk/mmz4281/1617/I1.csv"
"http://www.football-data.co.uk/mmz4281/1617/E1.csv"
"http://www.football-data.co.uk/mmz4281/1617/E2.csv"
"http://www.football-data.co.uk/mmz4281/1617/SP1.csv"
"http://www.football-data.co.uk/mmz4281/1617/D1.csv"
How should i pass the right arguments here

Answer 1

It looks like the URLs in your file are enclosed in "..." - actual double quotes that, when read with Get-Content, become a literal part of the lines read - which is not the intent (embedded " chars. are not allowed in URLs, which explains the error you saw).
Either: Update file C:\Users\User\Desktop\filelinks.txt by removing the enclosing " instances from each line.
Or: Remove the enclosing " instances after having read the lines with Get-Content:
$fileurl = $fileurl -replace '^"(.*)"$', '$1'