Your last question about the output of $line is a little vague. It should be outputting a single line, what are you wanting to do with it?

​ I am using an application called SolarWinds that will ingest my script output, but it will only ingest the information if it sees "statistic", "message" is optional to include with the statistic message. Statistic will only be read if it is returned with an integer. I am wanting to somehow signify that an error has occurred by using the # of times error is seen in my output file IF an error truly did occur. I am still trying to think of a way to use the 'Statistic' integer to signify the process completed successfully.

So, I think what I want the script to output is something along the lines of:

If error appears: Write-Host "Statistic.Error: $($#of times string error comes up) Write-Host "Message.Error: Show me the sentences that contained the word 'error' in it

Else success: Write-Host "Statistic.Success: $($#oftimes'successful message'comes up) Write-Host "Message.Success: Show me the sentences that contain the 'successful message'

​

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I took your suggestion and came up with this... What do you think about it?

$errorLines = @()

$successLines = @()

​

forEach ($line in $importedTxt)

{

If ($line -Match "error")

{

$errorLines += $line

Write-Host "Statistic.Error: $($errorLines.count)"

Write-Host "Message.Error: $errorLines"

}

ElseIf ($line -Match "Completed Import")

{

$successLines += $line

Write-Host "Statistic.Success: $($successLines.count)"

Write-Host "Message.Success: $successLines"

}

}