Simple function for converting collections into MarkDown tables..

Made a simple function for convering collections of PSObjects into Markdown tables.

Only real issue is that you have to pass your collection through Select-object before passing it to this, because it only enumerates the noteProperty members… but, you can just use

$collection | select * | convertto-MarkDownTable

and it will work fine (depending on how many properties, and width of console, etc)

function convertto-markdownTable { [cmdletbinding()] Param( [parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName="IndividualAlligned")] #[parameter(mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName="AllAlligned")] [parameter(mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName="Default")] [object]$inputObject, #[parameter(ParameterSetName="IndividualAlligned")] #[parameter(ParameterSetName="AllAlligned")] [parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName="Default")] [int]$width=20, #[parameter(ParameterSetName="IndividualAlligned")] #[parameter(ParameterSetName="AllAlligned")] [parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName="Default")] [switch]$includeOpen, [parameter(Mandatory=$true, ParameterSetName="IndividualAlligned")] [parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName="Default")] [hashtable]$columnAlignment, [parameter(Mandatory=$true, ParameterSetName="AllAlligned")] [parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true, ParameterSetName="Default")] [string]$allColumnsAllignment ) begin { $output = "" [System.Collections.ArrayList]$properties =[System.Collections.ArrayList]@() $firstRun=$true; $maxWidth = $width [System.Collections.ArrayList]$collection = [System.Collections.ArrayList]@() $hinted = $false; } process { $collection.add($inputObject)|out-null if($firstRun){ $properties = $inputObject.psobject.properties | where {$_.MemberType -eq "NoteProperty"} | select -ExpandProperty Name foreach($property in $properties){ try { if($maxWidth -lt $inputObject.$property.tostring().length){ $maxWidth = $inputObject.$property.tostring().length } } catch {} try{ if($includeOpen){ $output += "|$property$(" ".toString() * (($width - "$property".length)))" } else { $output += "$property$(" ".toString() * (($width - "$property".length)))|" } } catch [system.ArgumentOutOfRangeException] { if(!$hinted){ $hinted = $true } } } if($includeOpen){ $output += "|`n|" } else { $output += "`n" } foreach($property in $properties){ if($columnAlignment.$property){ switch($columnAlignment.$property){ Right { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=" "; R=":"; } } Left { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=":"; R=" "; } } Center { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=":"; R=":"; } } default { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=" "; R=" "; } } } } else { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=" "; R=" "; } switch($allColumnsAllignment){ Left { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=":"; R=" "; } } Right { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=" "; R=":"; } } Center { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=":"; R=":"; } } Default { $AllignmentSymbol = @{ L=" "; R=" "; } } } } $output += "$($AllignmentSymbol.L)"+("-"*($width-2)) +"$($AllignmentSymbol.R)|" } $AllignmentSymbol = " "; if($includeOpen){ $output += "`n" $output += "|" } else { $output += "`n" } foreach($property in $properties){ try { if([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($inputObject.$property)){ $output += " "*$width +"|" } else { $output += "$($inputObject.$property.ToString() + (" "*($width - ($inputObject.$property.toString().length))))|" } } catch [system.ArgumentOutOfRangeException] { if(!$hinted){ $hinted = $true } } } $output += "`n" $firstRun=$false } else { foreach($property in $properties){ try { if($maxWidth -lt $inputObject.$property.tostring().length){ $maxWidth = $inputObject.$property.tostring().length } } catch {} if([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($inputObject.$property)){ $output += " "*$width +"|" } else { if($includeOpen){ if($properties.IndexOf($property) -eq 0){ $output += "|" } } try { if($includeOpen){ $output += "$($inputObject.$property.toString() + (" "*($width - ($inputObject.$property.tostring().length))))" } else { $output += "$($inputObject.$property.toString() + (" "*($width - ($inputObject.$property.tostring().length))))|" } } catch [system.ArgumentOutOfRangeException] { if(!$hinted){ $hinted = $true } } if($includeOpen){ $output +="|" } } } $output += "`n" } } end { if($maxWidth -gt $width){ write-verbose "This dataset requires a minimum -width of $($maxWidth)" write-verbose "Reruning with -width $maxwidth" $collection | convertto-markdownTable -width $maxWidth -includeOpen:$includeOpen.IsPresent } else { write-output $output } } } $proc = get-process $proc | select Name, Handles, Npm -First 3| convertto-markdownTable -includeOpen -allColumnsAllignment Left $proc | select Name, Handles, Npm -First 3| convertto-markdownTable -allColumnsAllignment Center $proc | select Name, Handles, Npm -First 3 | convertto-markdownTable -includeOpen -columnAlignment @{Handles="Right"} $proc | select Name, Handles, Npm -First 3 | convertto-markdownTable -columnAlignment @{NPM="Center"} |Name |Handles |NPM | |:------------------ |:------------------ |:------------------ | |aaHMSvc |147 |13576 | |AdaptiveSleepService|118 |7824 | |AiChargerPlus |143 |10112 | Name |Handles |NPM | :------------------:|:------------------:|:------------------:| aaHMSvc |147 |13576 | AdaptiveSleepService|118 |7824 | AiChargerPlus |143 |10112 | |Name |Handles |NPM | | ------------------ | ------------------:| ------------------ | |aaHMSvc |147 |13576 | |AdaptiveSleepService|118 |7824 | |AiChargerPlus |143 |10112 | Name |Handles |NPM | ------------------ | ------------------ |:------------------:| aaHMSvc |147 |13576 | AdaptiveSleepService|118 |7824 | AiChargerPlus |143 |10112 | |Name |Handles |NPM | |:------------------ |:------------------ |:------------------ | |aaHMSvc |147 |13576 | |AdaptiveSleepService|118 |7824 | |AiChargerPlus |143 |10112 |