Find character position and update file name

Question

What function might I use to find a character position in a string using PowerShell 2.0.

i.e I would use CHARINDEX or PATINDEX if using SQL Server.

I looke

Answer 1

The string is a .NET string so you can use .NET methods. In your case:

$index = "The string".IndexOf(" ")

will return 3, which is the first occurrence of space in the string. For more information see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.aspx

For your need try something like:

$s.SubString($s.IndexOf("_") + 1, $s.LastIndexOf(".") - $s.IndexOf("_") - 1)

Or you could use regexps:

if ($s -Match '(_)(.*)(\.)[^.]*$') {  $matches[2] }

(has to be adjusted depending on exactly what you need).