How to read a line from a file in PowerShell

Question

I am novice to the PowerShell scripting. I am looking to fulfill one of my requirement.

I have one hosts file which is having multiple host names and IP addresses. B

Answer 1

I'm never seen anything from PowerShell, but I mean it can be helpful for you. Something like the following:

foreach ($line in $lines.Split('\r\n')){
    Test-Connection  $line.Split(' ')[1]
}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Answer 2

Try the following approach. It should be close.

$lines = Get-Content myfile.txt | Where {$_ -notmatch '^\s+$'} 
foreach ($line in $lines) {
    $fields = $line -split '\s+'
    $ip = $fields[0]
    $hosts = $fields[1..3]
    foreach ($h in $hosts) {
        $hostIP = (Test-Connection $h -Count 1).IPV4Address.ToString()
        if ($hostIP -ne $ip) { "Invalid host IP $hostIP for host $h" }
    }
}