Issue with String Manipulation in Powershell TrimEnd()

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I have this PowerShell script that renames a file. The following is part of the string manipulation code (not my actual code, just to show the issue):

$text="String1.txt"
$text
$text.trimend(".txt")
$date=Get-Date -format yyyyMMdd
$text + $date
$newFile = $text.trimend(".txt") + "_" + $date + ".bak"
$newFile
$NewFile1 = $newFile.TrimEnd("_$date.bak") + ".bak"
$NewFile1

The result is:

String1.txt
String1
String1.txt20131104
String1_20131104.bak
String.bak

Why was the 1 at the end of String1 removed as well? I am expecting the result to be String1.bak.

mjolinor · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-04 01:37:10Z

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The trimend() method takes a character array (not string) argument, and will trim all of the characters in the array that appear at the end of the string.

I usually use the -replace operator for trimming off a string value:

$text="String1.txt"
$text 
$text = $text -replace '\.txt$',''
$text

String1.txt
String1

answered Nov 4, 2013 at 1:37

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:51:38Z

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Developing on the answer at PowerShell to remove text from a string, I'm using these regex's to trim off an extension of unkown type with possible . elsewhere in the filename:

$imagefile="hi.there.jpg"
$imagefile
hi.there.jpg
$imagefile -replace '\.([^.]*)$', ''
hi.there
$imagefile -replace '([^.]*)$', ''
hi.there.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:51

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answered Aug 9, 2016 at 7:49

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