In the previous tip, we explained how you can use a regular expression to split strings in groups of a given length. Let’s explore what else can be done with this approach:
To split regular text in chunks of 5 character words, try this:
'Hello World, this is a text splitter!' -split '(?<=\G.{5})(?=.)'
This would produce hex pairs from a list of hexadecimals:
'00A1B26A7E100009' -split '(?<=\G[A-Fa-f0-9]{2})(?=.)'
And this would produce decimal values from a list of hexadecimals:
('00A1B26A7E100009' -split '(?<=\G[A-Fa-f0-9]{2})(?=.)').Foreach{[Convert]::ToInt32($_, 16)}
