Functions/Format-WrapText.ps1
function Format-WrapText { <# .SYNOPSIS Wraps text at a particular column width .DESCRIPTION Wraps text at a particular column width (Default=80) .PARAMETER Text The text to be formatted .PARAMETER Width Column width to wrap at. Default = 80 .PARAMETER Screen A switch indicating that the wrap should occur at the width of the current Powershell window. .EXAMPLE Format-WrapText -Text "word1 word2 word3 word4 word5" -Width 12 Would return word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 .OUTPUTS [String] .LINK Format-Table Format-List #> #region Parameter [CmdletBinding(ConfirmImpact = 'Low', DefaultParameterSetName = 'Width')] [OutputType('string')] [Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute('PSReviewUnusedParameter', '')] Param( [Parameter(Mandatory, HelpMessage = 'Enter a long string of text', Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline, ParameterSetName = 'Width')] [Parameter(Mandatory, HelpMessage = 'Enter a long string of text', Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline, ParameterSetName = 'Screen')] [string[]] $Text, [Parameter(ParameterSetName = 'Width')] [int] $Width = 80, [Parameter(ParameterSetName = 'Screen')] [switch] $Screen ) #endregion Parameter begin { Write-Verbose -Message "Starting $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)" Write-Verbose -Message "ParameterSetName [$($PsCmdlet.ParameterSetName)]" if ($PsCmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq 'Screen') { $Width = $host.UI.RawUI.WindowSize.Width - 1 Write-Verbose -Message "Setting width to $Width" } $NewText = '' } process { foreach ($CurLine in $Text) { $NewText = @($NewText, $CurLine) -join ' ' } } end { $NewText = $NewText.TrimStart().TrimEnd() Write-Verbose -Message "NewText is [$NewText]" $Words = $NewText -split '\s+' $Col = 0 [string] $Line = $null foreach ( $Word in $Words ) { $Col += $Word.Length + 1 Write-Verbose -Message "Currently on word [$Word], col [$Col]" if ( $Col -gt $Width ) { Write-Output -InputObject $Line [string] $Line = $null $Line += "$Word " $Col = 0 + $Word.Length + 1 } else { $Line += "$Word " } } if ($null -ne $Line) { Write-Output -InputObject "$Line" } Write-Verbose -Message "Ending $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)" } } Set-Alias -Name 'WrapText' -Value 'Format-WrapText' |