Getting character count for each row in text doc

Question

I am trying to get the character count for each row in a text doc. The contents of my text doc are: ``` 1 15 69 124 300 ``` I've been trying variants of the PS script: ``` get-content c:\serverlist.txt | foreach-object {measure-object -character} ``` But the best I can get returned is: Lines Words Characters Property ------- -------- -------------- ----------- 0 0 0 0 0 Not sure what I'm missing here, but any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Accepted Answer

You have to pipe directly into `Measure-Object`:

```
Get-Content c:\serverlist.txt | Measure-Object -Character
```

Otherwise you'd have to do either

```
| ForEach-Object { $_ | Measure-Object -Character }
```

which would be a bit of weird use of the pipeline or

```
| ForEach-Object { Measure-Object -Character -InputObject $_ }
```

which would be just about the same as the variant above.

Getting character count for each row in text doc

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