Parsing Request/Issue - Two Spaces instead of One

[narabug]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

If you returned data with two spaces between objects instead of a single space, we could easily parse the output. With only one space, parsing cannot consistently return accurate results.

For example:

because you are only appending a single space at the end of a value in the string, parsing becomes exceptionally difficult.

Proposed technical implementation details

Appending two space characters would make parsing this output significantly easier and more accurate.

[denelon]

I'll keep this Issue open for now, but I think we're looking at a different approach. For PowerShell we're going to call the COM API to get "rich" objects back. We're likely to have something in the CLI like "--json" to give output that is easier to format.

[jason-amick]

Is there an update to when there will be an update to this issue?

[denelon]

We've released the first couple of preview versions of the PowerShell module.

There is active discussion and development in progress"

• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/discussions/2796
• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/pull/2871

[Trenly]

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