Powershell: Search data in *.txt files to export into *.csv - powershell

Question

First of all, this is my first question here. I often come here to browse existing topics, but now I'm hung on my own problem. And I didn't found a helpful resource right now. My biggest concern would be, that it won't work in Powershell... At the moment I try to get a small Powershell tool to save me a lot of time. For those who don't know cw-sysinfo, it is a tool that collects information of any host system (e.g. Hardware-ID, Product Key and stuff like that) and generates *.txt files.
My point is, if you have 20, 30 or 80 server in a project, it is a huge amount of time to browse all files and just look for those lines you need and put them together in a *.csv file.
What I have working is more like the basic of the tool, it browses all *.txt in a specific path and checks for my keywords. And here is the problem that I just can use the words prior to those I really need, seen as follow:
Operating System: Windows XP
Product Type: Professional
Service Pack: Service Pack 3
...
I don't know how I can tell Powershell to search for "Product Type:"-line and pick the following "Professional" instead. Later on with keys or serial numbers it will be the same problem, that is why I just can't browse for "Standard" or "Professional".
I placed my keywords($controls) in an extra file that I can attach the project folders and don't need to edit in Powershell each time. Code looks like this:
Function getStringMatch
{
# Loop through the project directory
Foreach ($file In $files)
{
# Check all keywords
ForEach ($control In $controls)
{
$result = Get-Content $file.FullName | Select-String $control -quiet -casesensitive
If ($result -eq $True)
{
$match = $file.FullName
# Write the filename according to the entry
"Found : $control in: $match" | Out-File $output -Append
}
}
}
}
getStringMatch

Answer 1

I think this is the kind of thing you need, I've changed Select-String to not use the -quiet option, this will return a matches object, one of the properties of this is the line I then split the line on the ':' and trim any spaces. These results are then placed into a new PSObject which in turn is added to an array. The array is then put back on the pipeline at the end.
I also moved the call to get-content to avoid reading each file more than once.
# Create an array for results
$results = #()
# Loop through the project directory
Foreach ($file In $files)
{
# load the content once
$content = Get-Content $file.FullName
# Check all keywords
ForEach ($control In $controls)
{
# find the line containing the control string
$result = $content | Select-String $control -casesensitive
If ($result)
{
# tidy up the results and add to the array
$line = $result.Line -split ":"
$results += New-Object PSObject -Property #{
FileName = $file.FullName
Control = $line[0].Trim()
Value = $line[1].Trim()
}
}
}
}
# return the results
$results
Adding the results to a csv is just a case of piping the results to Export-Csv
$results | Export-Csv -Path "results.csv" -NoTypeInformation

Answer 2

If I understand your question correctly, you want some way to parse each line from your report files and extract values for some "keys". Here are a few lines to give you an idea of how you could proceede. The example is for one file, but can be generalized very easily.
$config = Get-Content ".\config.txt"
# The stuff you are searching for
$keys = #(
"Operating System",
"Product Type",
"Service Pack"
)
foreach ($line in $config)
{
$keys | %{
$regex = "\s*?$($_)\:\s*(?<value>.*?)\s*$"
if ($line -match $regex)
{
$value = $matches.value
Write-Host "Key: $_`t`tValue: $value"
}
}
}