This seems like it should be fairly simple, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have a string that looks like this:
$string = "blah blah; something"
All I want to do is break them apart at the semicolon and space, but whenever I try to do it using $string.split("; ") it also breaks apart the first half of the string because of the space. I'm assuming that I probably need to use Regex, but don't have a good grasp of that in order to get it done.
System.String.Split is designed to split on every character in the string you give it:
PS > $string = "blah blah; something"
PS > $string.Split('; b') # This splits on ";", " ", and "b"
lah
lah
something
PS >
If you want to split on a pattern such as "; ", you should use the -split operator:
PS > $string = "blah blah; something"
PS > $string -split '; '
blah blah
something
PS >
How about simply splitting the string at ; and trimming the results from extra whitespace?
PS C:\> $string.split(';') | % { $_.trim()}
blah blah
something
A regex sure works too:
[regex]::split($string, ";\s")
blah blah
something
Assuming it doesn't matter in your particular case, you could just remove the second space.
$string.Replace("; ", ";").Split(";")
