Automatically split | characters to a new line

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

I’d like to the ability to take the following line:

$Ports | ForEach-Object -Process { NETSTAT.EXE -ano | findstr.exe :8080 | ForEach-Object -Process { ($_ -split '\s+')[-1] } | Sort-Object | Get-Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { taskkill.exe /F /PID $_ } }

and convert it to:

$Ports |
    ForEach-Object -Process {
        NETSTAT.EXE -ano |
            findstr.exe :8080 |
            ForEach-Object -Process {
                ($_ -split '\s+')[-1]
            } | Sort-Object |
            Get-Unique |
            ForEach-Object -Process {
                taskkill.exe /F /PID $_
            }
    }

I think this would go a long way in approving readability. At the very least, with the

"powershell.codeFormatting.pipelineIndentationStyle": "IncreaseIndentationForFirstPipeline"

setting enabled, when I manually add the new line after each | and }, it will format the indentation correctly which is nice.

[thomasrea0113]

@thomasrea0113 this type of change would first need to be done in https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer which provides the formatting experience in the PowerShell extension for VSCode.

Once a formatting rule is added there, then we can add a vscode setting to configure it.

Can you open an issue issue over there first?

cc @bergmeister

Done. I created the issue here: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/issues/1345

in the meantime, should this issue be closed?

[bergmeister]

Thanks for transferring the issue, yes, we can close here. Should that new setting be implemented in PSSA, it should be natural to the implementer that PRs would later be needed here and in PSES to propagate the setting.