title: Using Powershell to output characters (not lines) after a match in a large file
body: <p>I use powershell to parse huge files and easily take a look at a small part of the file where a certain string occurs.. like this:
  <code>Select-String P120300420059211107104259.txt -Pattern &quot;&lt;ID&gt;9671510841&quot; -Context 0,300</code></p>
  <p>This gives me 300 lines of the file after the occurance of that ID number.</p>
  <p>But I've come across a file that has no carriage returns.  Now I would like to do the same thing, but instead of lines being returned, I guess I need characters.
  How would I do this?
  I have never created scripts in powershell - just ran simple commands like the above.</p>
  <p>I would like to see maybe 1000 characters after the matched string, within a huge file.
  THanks!</p>