Remove double quote and break line from Powershell-Script

Hello,

here we go again,

situation: I am trying to develop an Automation-script, which should remove the double quote and avoid the break line. If I open the CSV file with Notepad++.

Problem: below you see the example.

$report = [System.Collections.ArrayList]@()

Write-Host "Gathering VM statistics"

Measure-Command{

foreach($vm in Get-View -ViewType Virtualmachine) {

    if (!$vm.Config) { continue }

    $vms = [PSCustomObject]@{

      VMName = $vm.Name

      Hostname = $vm.guest.hostname

      OS = $vm.Config.GuestFullName

      IPAddress = $vm.guest.ipAddress

      Boottime = $vm.Runtime.BootTime

      #PoweredOff = ""

      VMState = $vm.summary.runtime.powerState

      UsedSpaceGB = [math]::Round($vm.Summary.Storage.Committed/1GB,2)

      ProvisionedSpaceGB = [math]::Round(($vm.Summary.Storage.Committed + $vm.Summary.Storage.UnCommitted)/1GB,2)

      MemoryUsage = $vm.summary.quickStats.guestMemoryUsage

      Datastore = $vm.Config.DatastoreUrl[0].Name

      CreatedDate = $vm.Config.CreateDate

      Notes = $vm.Config.Annotation

    }

    $Report.Add($vms) | Out-Null

}

}

$Report | Export-Csv -Path C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\report_$(Get-Date -Format 'yyyy_MM_dd').csv -NoTypeInformation -Delimiter ";"

$csv = 'C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\report_2020_06_04.csv'

(Import-Csv $csv -Header "VMName", "Hostname", "OS", "IPAddress", "Boottime", "PoweredOff",  "VMState", "UsedSpaceGB", "ProvisionedSpaceGB", "MemoryUsage", "Datastore", "CreatedDate", "Unit", "To_Archive", "Responsible_Team", "Backup_Strategy", "Notes") | % {

$_.Value = $_.Value -replace "`r`n",' '

  $_ } | Export-Csv $csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture | ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation | % { $_ -replace '"', ''} | Out-File $csv

In this script, I want to export some values in CSV first and after that, the double quotes should be removed from the CSV file and there should be no break line. but i'm stuck and don't know how to compare the date of the exported file and make changes.

another solution is:

Get-Content C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\report_2020_04_06.csv | Foreach-Object {$_ -replace '"', ''} | Out-File C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\report_Test.csv -Force -Encoding ascii

but again the same problem, the script runs daily with Task Scheduler with Date. (report_$(Get-Date -Format 'yyyy_MM_dd').csv).