Text Split and re-assemble

by May 2, 2013

Script noob, need a little help with text manipulation.  I need to take apart a url, in the format below:

\serversharefolderafolderb…filename 

Then re-assemble it dropping the \servershare and the filename (but do want to save the filename.  The url's are all variable length.

I was playing around with this:

GC c:workinfile.txt |

%{

$pieces = $_.Split("") 

$numpieces = $pieces.count

# $filename = $pieces[($pieces.length)]

$pieces

$numpieces

# $filename

$pieces.RemoveRange(0,3)

$pieces

 

}

But the RemoveRange method is not working and also not getting the Filename pull to work, have tried a few variations, this was where I left off.

 

Thanks for the help