Splitting and Adding String in Powershell

Question

I have following issue:

I have a string, like $word ='ABC.DEF.GHI'

I want to split this String into an array at the dot and add a string instead. Desired outcome would be like:

$arrayWordSplitted = 'ABC 123; DEF 123; GHI 123'

with $arrayWordSplitted[0] = 'ABC 123'

I tried the .split()- Method but I can't add for every element with this.

I tried something like this:$wordSplitted = $word.split('.') + '123'

But I get $wordSplitted='ABC; DEF; GHI; 123

How to split and add for all elements in powershell?

Zilog80 · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-09 11:59:19Z

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I guess you're looking for that :

$wordSplitted=$word.split('.') | %{ $_ += ' 123' ; $_ }

Some details: $word.split('.') produces a string array with words, string array that we pass through a pipe (|) to an elements iterator ( %{ }). In this iterator, we add to the string element ($_) the string ' 123' and then send it back as an output with ; $_. Thus, PowerShell build an array of strings with all strings suffixed with ' 123' and stores it in $wordSplitted.

EDIT: You can reduce it like @Olaf has done it with :

$wordSplitted=$word.split('.') | %{ $_ + ' 123' }

edited May 9, 2021 at 11:59

answered May 9, 2021 at 11:25

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Olaf · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-09 11:35:20Z

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A little more verbose version would be something like this:

$word = 'ABC.DEF.GHI' 
$SplittedWord = $word -split '\.'
$AddedStrings = $SplittedWord | ForEach-Object {$_ + ' 123'}

If you want to re-join them ...

$arrayWordSplitted = $AddedStrings -join '; '

And the output would be:

ABC 123; DEF 123; GHI 123

answered May 9, 2021 at 11:35

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TheCodingKing Over a year ago

Thank you very much! Really appreciate it! It works for me

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