Powershell string assign rows to variable [duplicate] - string

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I am trying to assign / divide a string out to assign them to variables. The length of each row is random so I am kinda at a loss. Thanks for the help.
-String-
Company 1
Employee 1
Employee 2
Employee 3
Company 2
Employee 1
Employee 2
Employee 3
I want to assign each line to a variable. $a = "company 1" $b = "employee 1" ect. The only stable variable in this string is each line of data is a different variable. The length of each line is unknown.
Thanks again!

Answer 1

If you really need to create a distinct variable for each row of your string, then use New-Variable in a loop:
$str = 'Company 1
Employee 1
Employee 2
Employee 3
Company 2
Employee 1
Employee 2
Employee 3'
# to know how many variables were created we will put them into array
$variables = #()
$i = 0
foreach ($row in ($str -split [Environment]::NewLine)) {
# create new variable from row's value
New-Variable -Name "row$i" -Value $row
# and create a member of array
$variables += [pscustomobject]#{Name = "row$i"; Value = $row}
$i++
}
Write-Host "Total: $i"
foreach ($var in $variables) {
Write-Host $var.Name $var.Value
}
# now we can get value from a variable
Write-Host $row1
# or from array
Write-Host $variables[1].Name $variables[1].Value
But to operate on a collection of items it is really simplier to use arrays and other collection types without creating a variable per item:
$rows = #()
foreach ($row in ($str -split [Environment]::NewLine)) {
$rows += $row
}
Write-Host "Total rows: $rows.Count"
# get the first row
$rows[0]