Read first line of text file then pass following lines to a loop to read

Question

I need to read the first line of a file and then the subsequent lines I want read using a loop.

eg:

Read in first line
Do stuff with the data

foreach ($line in $remainingLines)
{
    more stuff
}

I have a rather messy way to achieve this but there must be a better way.

Answer 1

Assign the content of the file to two variables. The first one will hold the first line, and the second variable gets the rest. Then loop over $remainingLines.

$firstLine,$remainingLines = Get-Content foo.txt

Answer 2

$contents = gc .\myfile.txt

write-host $contents[0]

for ($i=1; $i -lt $contents.Length; $i++)
{
  write-host $contents[$i]
}