Private/_OutSingleStringFromArray.ps1
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function _OutSingleStringFromArray { [CmdletBinding()] [OutputType([String])] param ( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline)] [string[]]$Text, [parameter(mandatory = $false)] # I wanted to pass a '' so that there was no separator but it still output the object on one line. # [char] $Separator = ';' ) begin { $Output = '' $InputObject = @() } process { # This accepts the pipeline input and stores it for processing. # It was done this way to get a count of the total number of items submitted in the pipeline. foreach ($Item in $Text) { $InputObject += $Item } } end { # This processes the pipeline input after accepting it all. $i = ($InputObject | Measure-Object).count foreach ($Item in $InputObject) { # The count is 1 higher than the index of the array, decrement before getting an index value. $i-- if ($i -eq 0) { $Output += "$Item" } else { $Output += "$Item$Separator " } } $Output } } |