Manipulating Strings that are inside Text Files - string

Question

Here's my situation:
We depend on users to click some .bat and do the daily-backup.
I did some batching programming, now when they (are forced to) back-up, it leaves a log file in it's own the server folder. And yes, they need to be forced otherwise they just won't do the g.damn backup... Welcome to my company.
Then, after some more research, I developed another bat which checks if the file is outdated and prints it on a text file.
This is the kind of files that I have now:
File: DailyBkp
Content:
".\John\log.log"
".\Department1\Andy\log.log"
".\Department1\Nicole\log.log"
".\Department2\Ann\log.log"
File: Departments
Content:
Department1
Department2
...
Great, after some string treatment in PowerShell I managed to get DailyBkp content to be this:
John
Department1 Andy
...
Note that it has a space at beginning and another at the end which won't go away no matter what trim I use...
So now I have this setup: SERVER > E:\Backup\
Inside backup we have i.e. "Department 1" ... "Dep.-N"
Inside each one: "User-Lastname1" .. "User-lastname-N"
What I need, or what I do want to is use PowerShell to get the contents of DailyBkp containing "Dept_User" string, and export entries to a csv file like this:
COLUMN_Name COLUMN_Dept
Andy Department1
So, how do I do this? I can't find anything on internet that uses text files.

Answer 1

so assuming I am reading your question correctly you have a DailyBkp file that looks like this:
Department1 Andy
Dpeartment2 Jim
...
to get what you want you could read each line in split it out then spit it back out in a csv like this:
"COLUMN_Name,COLUMN_Dept" | out-file <path>\outfile.csv
$bkpFile = get-content $dailyBkpFile
$bkpFile | ForEach-Object {$line = $_.split(" ")
"$($line[1]),$($line[0])" | out-file <path>\outfile.csv -Append}
output should look like this:
COLUMN_Name,COLUMN_Dept
Andy,Department1
Jim,Department2

Answer 2

just doind a quick post here.
My question was answered, thanks.
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