Convert text file to html

Question

_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:27 PM}

I have a text file with 100 lines. I want to convert it to html. However when I do that the html file does not come line by line but

multiple lines are appearing on the same line. How can I resolve this?

I am trying the below, where filepath4 is the path of the text file and filepath4 is the path of the html file

Get-Content $filepath4 | Out-File $filepath4

Convertto-Html also does not give the desired results.

All replies (9)

_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 5:13 PM ✅Answered}

ConvertTo-Html cannot convert text files. It can only convert objects.

This will make separate lines of a text file in HTML:

$text = Get-Content $filename -Raw
"<pre>$text</pre>" | Out-File $fiename2

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_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:29 PM}

Have you tried ConvertTo-HTML cmdlet? All you're doing is opening a text file and creating a new text file with the same content.

/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/convertto-html?view=powershell-6

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_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:32 PM}

Yes Convertto-html also does not work.

_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:42 PM}

When I use converttohtml I get output like this:

_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:50 PM}

What is the format of the text file you are parsing? That sounds to be the issue to me.

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_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 4:57 PM}

The format of the text file is like:

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like this 100 lines.

_{Wednesday, February 6, 2019 11:59 PM}

Tried this and getting the output in $filename2 as below:

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51

_{Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:05 AM}

You copied the code incorrectly.  Please copy it correctly.

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_{Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:14 AM}

Yes, this is showing the output line by line in the html file. Thanks.