Vista - Text manipulation question

I did a script that outputs a remote client's network connected printers (according to their dmain SID via registry) to a text file.

The text output is in the format eg:

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxx-3770063950-2320700579-61605\Printers\Connections\,,ServerName,QueueName

I'd like to mainpulate that output to:

\\ServerName\QueueName

Any tips on how to do this?

On Aug 25, 8:17*pm, aukiman <gu...@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:Here's one way to do it:

[regex]$pattern = ',,([^,]+),([^,]+)$'
$server = $groups[1].Value
$queue = $groups[2].Value
echo "\\$server\$queue (file://\\$server\$queue)"


I don't know how familiar you are with regular expressions, but
basically that's

,, -- two commas
( -- start grouping
[^,]+ -- one or more characters that are NOT commas
) -- finish grouping

etc...

$str -replace '.+,,(.+),(.+)','\\$1\$2 (file://\\$1\$2)'

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Kiron

On Aug 25, 10:37*pm, tojo2000 <tojo2...@xxxxxx> wrote:Okay, somehow I forgot to copy a couple of lines:

PS C:\> $path = 'HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-
xxxxxxxxxx-3770063950-2320700579-61605\Printers\Connect ions
\,,ServerName,QueueName'
PS C:\> [regex]$pattern = ',,([^,]+),([^,]+)$'
PS C:\> $groups = $pattern.Match($path).Groups
PS C:\> $server = $groups[1].Value
PS C:\> $queue = $groups[2].Value
PS C:\> echo "\\$server\$queue (file://\\$server\$queue)"
\\ServerName\QueueName (file://\\ServerName\QueueName)

brilliant ! thanks for the help guys, first time I've used expressions. Definitely not the last