Read html file as string in Powershell

Question

I need to read a html file and parse the content to a string

From this

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <title>Index</title>
</head>
<body>
    Index
</body>
</html>

To an output like this

$stringValue = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\"\"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">"...

I've tried with $stringValue = $htmlFile | ConvertTo-Json but it transforms some characters into new codes (> = u003e) where I want to keep the special characters intact.

Any help is appreciated

Have you trying parsing the content as UTF-16 in the string? — MwBakker, Nov 15 '17 at 12:12

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 15 '17 at 13:01

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You can use below command to get the content of html file and that you can store in any string variable like below.

[string]$Datas = Get-Content [HTML_file_Location]

edited Nov 15 '17 at 13:01

Vincent K

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answered Nov 15 '17 at 12:16

Deepesh

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Thanks, this worked:) – Marcus Höglund Nov 15 '17 at 15:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '17 at 12:13

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Try to read it as UTF-16 and see if output is passed through as desired. This answer shows how to read it as UTF-16.

Reading a "string in little-endian UTF-16 encoding" with BinaryReader

answered Nov 15 '17 at 12:13

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Read html file as string in Powershell

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