https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/split/Recent content in Split on Remko's BlogHugoen-usMon, 13 Mar 2017 15:28:13 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2017/03/13/split-string-dollar-sign-powershell/Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:28:13 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2017/03/13/split-string-dollar-sign-powershell/<p>Just a very quick post (more like a note to self) but I wanted to split a string with the $ sign in PowerShell:</p> <div class="codecard"> <div class="codehead"> <span class="codefile"></span> <span class="codetools" data-pagefind-ignore> <span class="codelang">powershell</span> <button class="codebtn" type="button" data-copy>Copy</button> <a class="codebtn" download=".ps1" href="data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,J29uZSR0d28kdGhyZWUkZm91ciRmaXZlJyAtc3BsaXQgJyQn">Download</a> </span> </div> <div class="codebody"><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-powershell" data-lang="powershell"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="s1">&#39;one$two$three$four$five&#39;</span> <span class="n">-split</span> <span class="s1">&#39;$&#39;</span></span></span></code></pre></div></div> </div> <p>Took me a little while to realize that this doesn&rsquo;t work as the <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/3.0/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_split">split</a> operator in Windows PowerShell uses a regular expression in the delimiter, rather than a simple character.</p>