That’s much more elegant than anything I was coming up with. If you’re willing to entertain one additional question—why is the space required at the beginning of the expression? I follow the .* and escaping the parenthesis, but I thought the space was just an oversight. Testing it though I realized the initial space is required in the beginning “ ?\(.*?\) ?"
Thanks, Geoff From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Devin Rich Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:15 PM To: powershell@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [powershell] Remove anything between defined characters: ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. I would do it this way because i'm lazy: -replace " ?\(.*?\) ?" PS > "(ywfew) Jessica (Yvs)" -replace " ?\(.*?\) ?" Jessica PS > "(ywfew)Jessica (Yvs)" -replace " ?\(.*?\) ?" Jessica PS > "Jessica (Yvs)" -replace " ?\(.*?\) ?" Jessica Thanks, Devin Rich Systems Administrator On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Orlebeck, Geoffrey <geoffrey.orleb...@montagehealth.org<mailto:geoffrey.orleb...@montagehealth.org>> wrote: I’m working on a script that gets some data fed into it. Some of the fields have two names, one wrapped in (). Example: “Jessica (Yvonne)”. I am trying to remove everything within the (), but I’m not sure how. I’ve tried several regex expressions, and I’m able to remove the (), but not the content within them. Essentially I’d like to turn “Jessica (Yvonne)” into “Jessica” (even if there is whitespace after ‘Jessica’). I tried several suggestions I saw online, escaping the “(“ and “)”, or using $regex = [regex]::Escape('()'), but I’m not sure how to basically say “Find ‘(‘ and remove everything until ‘)’ [including the parenthesis]. Any helpful tips or links where people are doing this? I tried doing array matches, removing the () and then selecting only the first position, but then discovered some of the fields have the parenthesis first (e.g. “(Yvonne) Jessica”. Thanks for any suggestions. Confidentiality Notice: This is a transmission from Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. This message and any attached documents may be confidential and contain information protected by state and federal medical privacy statutes. They are intended only for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in error, please accept our apologies and notify the sender. Thank you. The information contained in this message is privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, printing, dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.
