Extract a substring using PowerShell

Question

How can I extract a substring using PowerShell?

I have this string ...

\"-----start-------Hello World------end-------\"

I have to e

Answer 1

PS> $a = "-----start-------Hello World------end-------"
PS> $a.substring(17, 11)
         or
PS> $a.Substring($a.IndexOf('H'), 11)

$a.Substring(argument1, argument2) --> Here argument1 = Starting position of the desired alphabet and argument2 = Length of the substring you want as output.

Here 17 is the index of the alphabet 'H' and since we want to Print till Hello World, we provide 11 as the second argument