Get-ChildItem: Illegal characters in path - powershell

Question

I'm trying to login to multiple servers and then get list of files from those servers.
Below is my script:
$ServerName=Get-content "D:\HOMEWARE\BLRMorningCheck\Jerry\servername.txt"
foreach ($server in $ServerName)
{
$server_host=echo $server | %{$data = $_.split(";"); Write-Output "$($data[0])"}
$Targetfolder=echo $server | %{$data = $_.split(";"); Write-Output "$($data[1])"}
$Extension =#("*.log","*.txt*")
$Files = Get-Childitem $TargetFolder -Include $Extension -Recurse
echo $Files
}
When I run I debug mode I see that it really doesnt pick the files.
Error:
Get-ChildItem : Illegal characters in path.
At D:\HOMEWARE\BLRMorningCheck\Jerry\test.ps1:14 char:23
+ $Files = Get-Childitem <<<< $TargetFolder -Include $Extension -Recurse
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (D:\HOMEWARE\BLR...ck\Jerry\Check":String) [Get-ChildItem], ArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ItemExistsArgumentError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand
Get-ChildItem : Cannot find path 'D:\HOMEWARE\BLRMorningCheck\Jerry\"\srvparrtfh01\d$\HOMEWARE\BLRMorningCheck\Jerry\Check"' because it does not exist.
At D:\HOMEWARE\BLRMorningCheck\Jerry\test.ps1:14 char:23
+ $Files = Get-Childitem <<<< $TargetFolder -Include $Extension -Recurse
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (D:\HOMEWARE\BLR...ck\Jerry\Check":String) [Get-ChildItem], ItemNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand
Note: If I run it manually, example
$Files = Get-Childitem \\servername\d$\HOMEWARE\BLRMorningCheck\Jerry\Check -Include "*.log","*.txt*" -Recurse
I get the output.

Answer 1

As #arco444 and #PetSerAl mentioned in the comments: your path string has leading/trailing double quotes, which are invalid characters in a path. You need to remove them to make the path work as intended:
$Files = Get-Childitem ($TargetFolder -replace '^"|"$') -Include $Extension -Recurse
Of course, since your input file seems to be a some sort of CSV, you could use Import-Csv instead of reading the file with Get-Content and manually splitting the fields. That would already take care of the double quotes on file import.
$filename = 'D:\HOMEWARE\BLRMorningCheck\Jerry\servername.txt'
$extension = '*.log', '*.txt*'
Import-Csv $filename -Delimiter ';' -Header 'ComputerName', 'TargetFolder' | % {
Get-Childitem $_.TargetFolder -Include $extension -Recurse
}

Answer 2

This was an absolute nightmare, get-childitem cannot except a string variable if there are multiple paths.
Get-ChildItem -Path "\server1\c$\temp", "\server1\d$\temp" -File
-recurse # works
$path = '"\server1\c$\temp", "\server1\d$\temp"'; Get-ChildItem -Path "\server1\c$\temp", "\server1\d$\temp" -File
-recurse # fails with cannot find path
$path = "'"\server1\c$\temp", "\server1\d$\temp'""; Get-ChildItem -Path "\server1\c$\temp", "\server1\d$\temp" -File
-recurse # fails with illegal character message (the tick)
Any string that has multiple paths fails, however an array with += as shown below will work.
$servers = #("server1", "server2");
$partialPaths = #("\c$\temp\", "\d$\temp\");
foreach ($server in $servers)
{
$paths = #();
foreach ($partialPath in $partialPaths)
{
$paths += "\\" + $server + $partialPath;
}
}
Get-ChildItem -Path $paths -File -recurse;