It is definate that PowerShell is very powerful with hooks to WMI and so
forth but it appears to be lacking of some string manipulation functions. I
am a newbie to PowerShell but I cannot find anything close to the Perl split.
I found a regex split but that isn't what I really needed. What I need is:

my ($f1,$f2) = split (/,/, $record);
my $total = $f2 + $count;

to split the fields delimeted by a comma, then I would like to deal only
with field two. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

PS C:\TEMP> $line = "one,3"
PS C:\TEMP> $total = $line.split(",")[1] + $count

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"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F807C9A2-F28F-479C-88AA-C50AF166010D@microsoft.com...
| It is definate that PowerShell is very powerful with hooks to WMI and so
| forth but it appears to be lacking of some string manipulation functions.
I
| am a newbie to PowerShell but I cannot find anything close to the Perl
split.
| I found a regex split but that isn't what I really needed. What I need
is:
|
| my ($f1,$f2) = split (/,/, $record);
| my $total = $f2 + $count;
|
| to split the fields delimeted by a comma, then I would like to deal only
| with field two. Is this possible?
|
| Thanks in advance
|
|

Hi,

PS > "1,2,3".split(',')
1
2
3
PS > $a,$b = "1,2,3".split(',')
PS > $a
1
PS > $b
2
3
PS > $a + [Math]::Pi # Note $a was parsed as a string.
13.14159265358979
PS > [int]$a + [Math]::Pi
4.14159265358979
PS >

You will also want to read up on the -match and -replace
operators, which are sometimes convenient for pattern matching.

The most important cmdlet to know and use often is Get-Member. As
a Perl user the trickiest cmdlets for you will be Get-Content, Set-
Content, Get-ChildItem.

Mike


On Feb 14, 6:20 pm, Frank <F...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> It is definate that PowerShell is very powerful with hooks to WMI and so
> forth but it appears to be lacking of some string manipulation functions. I
> am a newbie to PowerShell but I cannot find anything close to the Perl split.
> I found a regex split but that isn't what I really needed. What I need is:
>
> my ($f1,$f2) = split (/,/, $record);
> my $total = $f2 + $count;
>
> to split the fields delimeted by a comma, then I would like to deal only
> with field two. Is this possible?
>
> Thanks in advance

| PS > $a,$b = "1,2,3".split(',')

I love this little ditty. We need to keep in mind it does involve another
array alloc (and array copy) each time we do it. But I do like it soo.
--wjs