Split text by columns in PowerShell

Question

I\'m a PowerShell novice (Bash is my thing normally) who\'s currently trying to obtain qwinsta output to show who is logged in as an \'rdpwd\' (rdesktop) user so that I can

Answer 1

I wrote a reusable ConvertFrom-SourceTable cmdlet which is available for download at the PowerShell Gallery and the source code from the GitHub iRon7/ConvertFrom-SourceTable repository.

$Object = ConvertFrom-SourceTable '
SESSIONNAME       USERNAME        ID     STATE   TYPE      DEVICE
services                          0      Disc
console                           1      Conn
rdp-tcp#0         user.name1      2      Active  rdpwd
rdp-tcp#1         user.name2      3      Active  rdpwd
rdp-tcp#1         user.name3      4      Active  rdpwd
rdp-tcp                           65536  Listen
'

It pretty flexible and capable of reading a lot of table format including reading the output of the results. Or even if e.g. the ID column is right aligned meaning that it would concern integers rather than strings:

$Object = ConvertFrom-SourceTable '
   ID TYPE  USERNAME   STATE  DEVICE SESSIONNAME
   -- ----  --------   -----  ------ -----------
    0                  Disc          services
    1                  Conn          console
    2 rdpwd user.name1 Active        rdp-tcp#0
    3 rdpwd user.name2 Active        rdp-tcp#1
    4 rdpwd user.name3 Active        rdp-tcp#1
65536                  Listen        rdp-tcp
'

For details see: ConvertFrom-SourceTable -?