PowerShell -split on Pipe Character
It seems -split expects a regular expression and thus you need to escape the pipe as in:
$row = $_ -split "\|"Or specify the SimpleMatch option to split on the literal string or character:
$row = $_ -split "|", 0, "SimpleMatch"The 0 stands for MaxSubstrings: "The maximum number of substrings, by default all (0)."
Source: http://ss64.com/ps/split.html
Also: Get-Help about_Split