Undesired Newlines in Output from AD Search - powershell

Question

I am having an issue with the out put; I wanted a second look to see another way of getting my output to not have return or new lines in it.
Could someone take a look for me please?
$objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=Workstations");
$objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher;
$objSearcher.SearchRoot = $objDomain;
$objSearcher.PageSize = 100000;
$objSearcher.SearchScope = "Subtree";
$dateMonth = Get-Date -Format "MM";
$dateDay = Get-Date -Format "dd";
$dateYear = Get-Date -Format "yyyy";
$colProplist = "name"
foreach ($i in $colPropList){$objSearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add($i)}
$colResults = $objSearcher.FindAll();
foreach ($objResult in $colResults)
{
$objItem = $objResult.Properties;
$computer = $objItem.name | Select-String -Pattern 'NSC';
Write-Host $computer;
#Add-Content "C:\PowerShell\Reports\Computer Report - $dateMonth-$dateDay-$dateYear.csv" "$computer";
}
Example output:
NSCNPR02
NSCNPR05
NSCNPR01
NSCNPR03
Expected Output:
NSCNPR03
NSCNPR05
NSCNPR01
NSCNPR03

Answer 1

Try this:
$date = Get-Date -Format "MM-dd-yyyy"
$filename = "C:\PowerShell\Reports\Computer Report - $date.csv"
...
$objSearcher.FindAll() | ? {
$_.Properties.Name -like 'NSC*'
} | Add-Content $filename
The problem with your code is that
Add-Content "C:\Pow...csv" "$computer"
always adds a new line, even if $computer is $null. This behavior is due to the double quotes around $computer. Without them the problem wouldn't exist (but my suggestion would still be a cleaner solution ;).

Answer 2

Add-Content adds new lines.
As a workaround you may out text into the string and then write it into the file when the cycle is done.

Answer 3

Can you use the LDAP filtering instead of pulling all the records and then searching?
Instead of
"LDAP://OU=Workstations"
Use
"LDAP://OU=Workstations?(&(objectCategory=computer)(name=NSC*))"
For more information: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5392.active-directory-ldap-syntax-filters.aspx