Add-Border.ps1
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#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-Deail "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 |