Stuck in the stone age and need some advice

Question

while ($true)
$A = (Get-Date -DisplayHint time)
$log = "c:\Alert-2.csv"
Myscript | wc > c:Alert.log
Get-Content -path c:Alert.log | % { $_.Substring(1,7).Trim( ); } > c:Alert-1.log
Get-Content -path c:Alert-1.log >> c:Alert-2.csv
Add-Content >> ($(c:Alert-2.csv)) '`t,$A '
Okay I'm stock on a 2003 server that has v2 of powershell, and we are working on replacing but that's ,,,the future.
My problem is this;
I just want to append a time stamp  to each new entry in a csv file my script creates, like this
"0, 01:00:00"
I get the  "0" before the ',' but nothing after.
My results are less than optimal and I am hogtied to powershell v2 so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

What do you mean by append.  A CSV is a file of comma separted values and a header.  YOu are trying to add a tab delimited filed with no header.  That won't work.
To load a CSV wew would do this:
$csv=Import-Csv $log
If you want to add and update a field we would do this:
$csv=Import-Csv $log -header h1,h2,h3...new
Where h1..hn are the existing columns and "new" is a new column name.  Now you can enumerate and assign the timestamp.
$ts=Get-Date -Display time
$csv | %{$_.New = $ts}
$csv | Export-Csv Outfile.csv -notype
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