{"id":1189,"date":"2014-06-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/06\/11\/powertip-split-string-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-split-string-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-split-string-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Split String with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Easily split a string on multiple characters with Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to split a string that contains multiple separator characters (for example, a comma and a semicolon)?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Specify a string with the characters in it to the Split<\/b> method:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $string = "This,is;a;string"<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $string.Split(',;')<\/p>\n

This<\/p>\n

is<\/p>\n

a<\/p>\n

string<\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Easily split a string on multiple characters with Windows PowerShell.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to split a string that contains multiple separator characters (for example, a comma and a semicolon)?  Specify a string with the characters in it to the Split method: PS C:\\> $string = "This,is;a;string" PS C:\\> $string.Split(',;') This is a string<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Easily split a string on multiple characters with Windows PowerShell.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to split a string that contains multiple separator characters (for example, a comma and a semicolon)?  Specify a string with the characters in it to the Split method: PS C:\\> $string = "This,is;a;string" PS C:\\> $string.Split(',;') This is a string<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}