Extract text from a string

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How do I extract the  program name  from a string  The string will look like this          O0033 SUB RAD MSD 50R III   G91G1X-6 4Z-2 F500  G3I6 4Z-8   G3I6 4    G3R3 2X6 4F500  G91G0Z5   G91G1X-10 4 G3I10 4 G3R5 2X10 4 G90G0Z2     M99     The program name is  SUB RAD MSD 50R III    Storing the result in another string is fine   I m learning powershell so any explaination of your answers will be appreciated

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Using -replace    string      O0033 SUB RAD MSD 50R III  G91G1X-6 4Z-2 F500 G3I6 4Z-8 G3I6 4 G3R3 2X6 4F500 G91G0Z5  G91G1X-10 4 G3I10 4 G3R5 2X10 4 G90G0Z2  M99      program    string -replace     sO d 4                 1    program  SUB RAD MSD 50R III

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If program name is always the first thing in     and doesn t contain other  s than the one at end  then  yourstring -match               does the matching  result will be in  Matches 0

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The following regex extract anything between the parenthesis   PS gt   prog    regex   match  s                 Groups 1  Value PS gt   prog SUB RAD MSD 50R III   Explanation  created with RegexBuddy   Match the character     literally        Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 1                 Match any character that is NOT a   character                  Between one and unlimited times  as many times as possible  giving back as needed  greedy        Match the character     literally          Check these links   http   www regular-expressions info  http   powershell com cs blogs tobias archive 2011 10 27 regular-expressions-are-your-friend-part-1 aspx  http   powershell com cs blogs tobias archive 2011 12 02 regular-expressions-are-your-friend-part-2 aspx  http   powershell com cs blogs tobias archive 2011 12 02 regular-expressions-are-your-friend-part-3 aspx

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Just to add a non-regex solution          myString Split       1          This splits the string at the parentheses and takes the string from the array with the program name in it   If you don t need the parentheses  just use    myString Split       1

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