Powershell Replace text string

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I have a line of text in a string that I need to replace part of it.

$OrgString = "BLUE ORIGIN             CONTACT:  MB"
$OrgString -replace 'CONTACT:'

I need to remove CONTACT: MB Keep in mind that the only thing that will be consistent in string will be CONTACT:. Everything else in the string will vary. Is there a way to do a -replace 'CONTACT:' plus a "number" of characters?

more examples of your expected output. do you want all the trailing spaces/etc. 'BLUE ORIGIN ' is different than 'BLUE ORIGIN' — Kory Gill
– Kory Gill, Commented Dec 11, 2018 at 21:28

score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-11 22:39:32Z

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As the -replace operator is regular expressions based, you should learn about RegEx

To match up to line end use .*$

$OrgString = "BLUE ORIGIN             CONTACT:  MB"
$OrgString -replace 'CONTACT:.*$','#'

BLUE ORIGIN             #

If something else follows that should NOT be deleted,

$OrgString = "BLUE ORIGIN             CONTACT:  MB  SOMETHING:  ELSE"
$OrgString -replace 'CONTACT:\s+\S+\s+'

BLUE ORIGIN             SOMETHING:  ELSE

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