functions/Add-Border.ps1

#add a border around a string of text

<#
originally published at
 https://gist.github.com/jdhitsolutions/0bbd6b64c107d7da23e65359c4d0e25c
 
 #>

Function Add-Border {
    [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName = "single")]

    Param(
        # The string of text to process
        [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory, ValueFromPipeline, ParameterSetName = 'single')]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string]$Text,

        [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory, ParameterSetName = 'block')]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string[]]$TextBlock,

        # The character to use for the border. It must be a single character.
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [validateScript( {$_.length -eq 1})]
        [string]$Character = "*",

        # add blank lines before and after text
        [Switch]$InsertBlanks,

        # insert X number of tabs
        [int]$Tab = 0
    )

    Begin {
        Write-Detail "Starting $($myinvocation.mycommand)" -Prefix begin | Write-Verbose
        $tabs = "`t" * $tab
        Write-Detail "Using a tab of $tab" -Prefix BEGIN | Write-Verbose
    } #begin

    Process {

        if ($pscmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq 'single') {
            Write-Detail "Processing '$text'" -Prefix PROCESS | Write-Verbose
            #get length of text
            $len = $text.Length
        }
        else {
            Write-Detail "Processing text block" -Prefix PROCESS| Write-Verbose
            $txtarray = $textblock.split("`n").Trim()
            $len = $txtarray | Sort-Object -property length -Descending | Select-Object -first 1 -expandProperty length
        }

        Write-Detail "Using a length of $len" | Write-Verbose
        #define a horizontal line
        $line = $Character * ($len + 4)

        if ($insertBlanks -and ($pscmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq 'single')) {
            Write-Detail "Inserting blank lines" -Prefix PROCESS | Write-Verbose
            $body = @"
$tabs$character $((" ")*$len) $character
$tabs$Character $text $Character
$tabs$character $((" ")*$len) $character
"@

        }
        elseif ($insertBlanks -and ($pscmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq 'block')) {
            Write-Detail "Inserting blank lines in the block" -prefix Process | write-Verbose
            $body = @"
$tabs$character $((" ")*$len) $character
"@


            foreach ($line in $txtarray) {
                $body += "$tabs$Character $(($item).PadRight($len)) $Character"
            }

            $body += "$tabs$character $((" ")*$len) $character"

        }
        elseif ($pscmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq 'single') {
            $body = "$tabs$Character $text $Character"
        }
        else {

            [string[]]$body = ""
            foreach ($item in $txtarray) {
                $body += "$tabs$Character $(($item).PadRight($len)) $Character`r"
            }
        }

        [string[]]$out = "`n$tabs$line"
        foreach ($b in $body.split("`n")) {
            $out += $b
        }
        $out += "$tabs$line"
        #write the result to the pipeline
        $out
    } #process

    End {
        Write-Detail "Ending $($myinvocation.mycommand)" -prefix END | Write-Verbose
    } #end

} #close function