I need a PowerShell script that search in XML files for <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> and remove it.
I tried:
(Get-Content $file) |
Foreach { $_ -Replace '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>', "" } |
Set-Content $file;
but it doesn't work.
This doesn't work because -replace is using regex (you would have to escape your string in order to get it work). However, you can also use the .Replace static method for strings which doesn't use regex:
(Get-Content $file -raw).Replace('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>', '') |
Set-Content $file;
Note that I am using the -raw switch of the Get-Content cmdlet to load the file as a single string (instead of a string array) - so you don't need to iterate over the lines but can replace everything at once.
(Get-Content $output -raw).Replace('</Export>', '') | Set-Content $output; (Get-Content $output -raw).Replace('<Export/>', '') | Set-Content $output; (Get-Content $output -raw).Replace('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>', '') | Set-Content $output; is there a way to do it simpler?
(Get-Content $output -raw).Replace('</Export>', '').Replace('<Export/>', '').Replace(....) | Set-Content $output. But since you are editing XML, it may be better to do this with XML methods (depends on your requirement).
Building on @MartinBrandl's answer, if you need to remove multiple parts, you could do this:
$toRemove = '</Export>', '<Export/>', '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
$content = Get-Content $file -Raw
foreach($part in $toRemove) {
$content = $content.Replace($part, '')
}
$content | Set-Content $file
you can escape your string too like this
(Get-Content $file) |
Foreach { $_ -Replace [Regex]::Escape('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'), '' } |
Set-Content $file;
