Powershell filter winget upgrade

Get-Updates.ps1

# add id to skip the update
$skipUpdate = @(
'Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6',
'Microsoft.WindowsSDK'
)


# object to be used basically for view only
class Software {
  [string]$Name
  [string]$Id
  [string]$Version
  [string]$AvailableVersion
}

# get the available upgrades
$upgradeResult = winget upgrade -u

# run through the list and get the app data
$upgrades = @()
$idStart = -1
$isStartList = 0
$upgradeResult | ForEach-Object -Process {

  if ($isStartList -lt 1 -and -not $_.StartsWith("Name") -or $_.StartsWith("---") -or $_.StartsWith("The following packages"))
  {
    return
  }

  if ($_.StartsWith("Name"))
  {
    $idStart = $_.toLower().IndexOf("id")
    $isStartList = 1
    return
  }

  if ($_.Length -lt $idStart)
  {
    return
  }

  $Software = [Software]::new()
  $Software.Name = $_.Substring(0, $idStart-1)
  $info = $_.Substring($idStart) -split '\s+'
  $Software.Id = $info[0]
  $Software.Version = $info[1]
  $Software.AvailableVersion = $info[2]

  $upgrades += $Software
}

# view the list
$upgrades | Format-Table

# run through the list, compare with the skip list and execute the upgrade (could be done in the upper foreach as well)
$upgrades | ForEach-Object -Process {

  if ($skipUpdate -contains $_.Id)
  {
    Write-Host "Skipped upgrade to package $($_.id)"
    return
  }

  Write-Host "Going to upgrade $($_.Id)"
  winget upgrade -u $_.Id
}

Nice work! There's some minor issue with a package though. This is the winget update output:

Name                                                               Id                           Version          Available        Source
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - en-us                          Microsoft.Office             16.0.14931.21024 16.0.16327.20214 winget
Oh My Posh version 17.3.0                                          JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh      17.3.0           17.4.0           winget
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) - 14.28.29914 Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 14.28.29914.0    14.36.32532.0    winget
DisplayLink Graphics                                               DisplayLink.GraphicsDriver   10.3.6400.0      11.0.2412.0      winget
Teams Machine-Wide Installer                                       Microsoft.Teams              1.4.0.19572      1.6.00.6754      winget
5 upgrades available.

And for some reason the Microsoft Visual C++ package info is not being formatted properly.

Name                                              Id                         Version                      AvailableVersion
----                                              --                         -------                      ----------------
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - en-us         Microsoft.Office           16.0.14931.21024             16.0.16327.20214
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (Ô ª                          Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 14.28.29914.0
DisplayLink Graphics                              DisplayLink.GraphicsDriver 10.3.6400.0                  11.0.2412.0
Teams Machine-Wide Installer                      Microsoft.Teams            1.4.0.19572                  1.6.00.6754

Skipped upgrade to package Microsoft.Office
Going to upgrade ª
No installed package found matching input criteria.
Skipped upgrade to package DisplayLink.GraphicsDriver
Skipped upgrade to package Microsoft.Teams

The problem is, the text for VisualC++ Name is too long for the column and in my Powershell window it shows me 3 dots (...) at the end, but that's not three dots, it's a special character that looks like 3 dots and that messes up the script.
I assume you are using Visual Studio Code, which also shows me .

Insert after line 17:
# Remove ellipsis character (Unicode 2026) and other potential problematic encodings
$upgradeResult = $upgradeResult -replace [char]0x2026, ' ' # Replace Unicode ellipsis with a space
$upgradeResult = $upgradeResult -replace '', ' ' # Replace other potential ellipsis encodings with a space