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How can I parse a string of text in PowerShell?

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For you vbscripters out we had a built in function call split that allowed us to split text strings into an array. We have the same functionality as method in PowerShell.

First create a variable:
  • $Var1="“10,15,20,9,8,7”"

Now let's discover the methods that are available to this variable. Powershell is smart enough to know that this variable is a string.
  • $Var1 | Get-Member





Noticed that Split is a method. Let’s go ahead and execute this method.
• $Var1.Split(“,”).



The “,” tells PowersShell that our delimiter is going to be the comma. You can choose any character to be your delimiter.

You can also treat these as cells in an array.

• $Var2 = $Var1.Split(“,”)
• $Var2[1]

After you execute the second command, the contents of cell 1 in the array $Var2 will be displayed. In this case, it should be 15.
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Anonymous said…
V2 also introduces the -split operator (get-help about_split,) and you can also go all the way with http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/parsetextObjectAWKWithAVengeance.aspx

Lee Holmes [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Development
Microsoft Corporation
September 15, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Anonymous said…
1st Thank You!

I needed to count the number of comma's in a string:

$Var.Split(",").Count
May 19, 2015 at 7:25 AM
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