powershell - Convertto-HTML outputting pre/post content showing up as System.String[] instead of actual content -
i trying use powershell output table pre/post content , email it, pre/post content showing in email "system.string[]." rest of content seems fine, , if output html string console, looks fine.
function send-smtpmail($to, $from, $subject, $smtpserver, $body) { $mailer = new-object net.mail.smtpclient($smtpserver) $msg = new-object net.mail.mailmessage($from,$to,$subject,$body) $msg.isbodyhtml = $true $mailer.send($msg) } $content = get-process | select processname,id $headerstring = "<table><caption> foo. </caption>" $footerstring = "</table>" $myreport = $content | convertto-html -fragment -precontent $headerstring -postcontent $footerstring send-smtpmail "my email" "from email" "my report title" "my smtp server" $myreport shows in email as:
system.string[] processname id ... ... system.string[] doing out-file , invoke-item has same results sending email...
convertto-html returns list of objects - strings , string arrays e.g.:
407# $headerstring = "<table><caption> foo. </caption>" 408# $footerstring = "</table>" 409# $content = get-date | select day, month, year 410# $myreport = $content | convertto-html -fragment -precontent $headerstring ` -postcontent $footerstring 411# $myreport | foreach {$_.gettype().name} string[] string string string string string string string string string string[] so $myreport contains array of both strings , string arrays. when pass array mailmessage constructor, expects type string, powershell attempts coerce string. result is:
412# "$myreport" system.string[] <table> <colgroup> <col/> <col/> <col/> </colgroup> <tr><th>day </th><th>month</th><th>year</th></tr> <tr><td>9</td><td>2</td><td>2011 </td></tr> </table> system.string[] the easy solution run output of converto-html through out-string cause $myreport single string:
413# $myreport = $content | convertto-html -fragment -precontent $headerstring ` -postcontent $footerstring | out-string 414# $myreport | foreach {$_.gettype().name} string 
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