How to extract substring from string

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Diego Posted: 04-04-2012 9:12 AM

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Hello!

I'm trying extract a substrings from strings to compare with current date. For exemplo:

$str = "teste_20120404_11h00min00seg"

How to extract "20120404" from $str ?

I tried

$str.Split("_") | Select-String [0-9]

but the result is

20120404
11h00min00seg

Thanks!

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Thomas Lee replied on 04-04-2012 9:41 AM

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$str.split("_")[1]  will get you the date

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Diego replied on 04-04-2012 11:25 AM

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Thank you very much!

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Diego replied on 04-04-2012 12:31 PM

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Hello guys!

I wrote a script to delete some files from a directory and I'd like share with you. The filenames selected by script have the substring ".bak" and a substring that references a date (p.e., "teste_script_20120404.bak") after the second "_" (underscore) - $dtfile variable in the script. If the date in the filename is lesser than current date and the length of $dtfile is greater than zero, the file is deleted.

$year = get-date -uformat "%Y%m%d";
echo $year;
ls | ForEach-Object{echo $_.name} | Select-String ".bak" > ToDel.txt;
$files = cat ToDel.txt;
ForEach ($name in $files) {
   $dtfile = $name.Split("_")[2];
   if(($dtfile -lt $year) -and ($dtfile.Length -gt 0)) {
      #echo $name;
      rm $name;
   }

}

I hope that be useful for someone else!