Splitting a string into separate variables
An array is created with the -split operator. Like so,
$myString="Four score and seven years ago"$arr = $myString -split ' '$arr # Print outputFourscoreandsevenyearsagoWhen you need a certain item, use array index to reach it. Mind that index starts from zero. Like so,
$arr[2] # 3rd elementand$arr[4] # 5th elementyears
It is important to note the following difference between the two techniques:
$Str="This is the<BR />source string<BR />ALL RIGHT"$Str.Split("<BR />")Thisisthe(multiple blank lines)sourcestring(multiple blank lines)ALLIGHT$Str -Split("<BR />")This is thesource stringALL RIGHT From this you can see that the string.split() method:
- performs a case sensitive split (note that "ALL RIGHT" his split on the "R" but "broken" is not split on the "r")
- treats the string as a list of possible characters to split on
While the -split operator:
- performs a case-insensitive comparison
- only splits on the whole string