Save content from text file to string variable

Question

Hello everybody.

I add content from file to my variable but the variable is save as Name:"object" and BaseType:"system.array".
I want convert this variable to normal string.
But when i done it the string is messed up.

See what i mean ("$test" is the right variable and "test1" is what i want to look same as the previos variable.):

Code example:

$test = "  
This  
 is  
test  
code  
"  
$test1 = cat Path-To-File-Where-Is-The-Same-Text-What-I-Used-Previos  
$test.GetType()  
  
$test1.GetType()  
[string]$test1  
$test  
$test1  
[System.Object]$test1  
$a = [System.Object]$test1  
$a  
$a.GetType()  

I want to print same output as the variable $test

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

Hi @Filip ,

have you tried Get-Content instead of cat?

$content = Get-Content -Path $fileName -Raw  
$content.GetType()  
  
<#  
IsPublic IsSerial Name                                     BaseType  
-------- -------- ----                                     --------  
True     True     String                                   System.Object  
#>  

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Andreas Baumgarten