Splitting strings in PowerShell

Question

I got a variable that contains different strings like domainname/users/username and domainname/accounts/serviceUsers/serviceusername.

Now I want to split these strings on the last "/" so I get only the last bit (username, serviceusername).

I know how to use split when specifiying exactly on which occurance of the "/" the string should be splitted, but not generally at the last "/".

$x = 'domainname/Accounts/ServiceUsers/serviceusername' 
$x.split('/')[3]

How can I achieve that?

rawel · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-08 11:11:57Z

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Hope this helps

$x.split('/')[-1]

answered Aug 8, 2019 at 11:11

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Jeff Zeitlin Over a year ago

To expand on this, PowerShell allows negative subscripting to select an array element starting from the end (last element of the array). Because 0 can't be distinguished as to positive or negative (except on certain old computers), "reverse" subscripting is 1-based instead of 0-based, and the last element of $x is $x[-1], the next-to-last is $x[-2], and so on.

js2010 · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-08 12:43:46Z

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Another way. Note that -split uses regex.

'domainname/Accounts/ServiceUsers/serviceusername'-split '/' | 
  select -Last 1

answered Aug 8, 2019 at 12:43

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