Quickest way to organize categorized data in a text file and convert to CSV

Question

I have a text file with hundreds of rows. Data fields and values separated by a colon and one empty line separating each data set. It looks something like this...

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Answer 1

A way to do what you want in simple, and hopefully clear code. I did not use sophisticated PS objects, methods or functions so it that it is clear and simple. The input is expected to be in a text file called in1.txt. I assume that each set of date has at most 7 lines (before a space or end-of-file is encountered). I did not make it generic or include error checking, etc. Needless to say, there are many other ways you can do this. If you have any comments let me know.

#======================
# Function used by code
#======================

Function func-PrintSet
{

 $s1=''
 $del= ','
 $q='"'
 foreach ($element in $arr1) {
     $s1=$s1+$q+$element+$q + $del 
 }
 $s1

 $s1=""
 foreach ($element in $arr2) {
     $s1=$s1+$q+$element+$q +  $del 
 }
 $s1

}

#=====================
# Main code
#=====================

# simple initialization of arrays.

$arr1=0,0,0,0,0,0,0
$arr2=0,0,0,0,0,0,0
$i=-1
$reader = [System.IO.File]::OpenText("in1.txt")
while ($null -ne ($line = $reader.ReadLine())) 
{
    IF ($line)
    {

         $items = $line.split(':')
         $i=$i+1
         $arr1[$i]= $items[0]
         $arr2[$i]= $items[1]
    }
    ELSE
    {

        func-PrintSet   
        $i=-1
    }
}
func-PrintSet

"Done :)"

# Code end