Converting the FileSystemObject's Skip Method

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Definition: Skip over the first n number of characters when reading a line from a text file.

Skip

Use Get-Content and the -totalcount paramenter to retrieve the first line from the text file. To skip the first 5 characters, start with item 5 (the sixth item in the array) and read the rest of the line up to the length of the array.

$a = Get-Content test.txt -totalcount 1
$a[5..$a.length]

Keep in mind that this code returns an array rather than a string. Also note that in Windows PowerShell 1.0, the -totalcount parameter works with only one line.

See conversions of other FileSystemObject methods and properties.
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