PowerShell to remove text from a string

Question

What is the best way to remove all text in a string after a specific character? In my case "=" and after another character in my case a ,, but keep th

Answer 1

Another way to do this is with operator -replace.

$TestString = "test=keep this, but not this."

$NewString = $TestString -replace ".*=" -replace ",.*"

.*= means any number of characters up to and including an equals sign.

,.* means a comma followed by any number of characters.

Since you are basically deleting those two parts of the string, you don't have to specify an empty string with which to replace them. You can use multiple -replaces, but just remember that the order is left-to-right.