How do I change:
$Text = "Apple Pear Peach Banana"
to
$Text = @("Apple", "Pear", "Peach", "Banana")
I am planning to feed the array to a foreach loop. The input the user is prompted to enter fruit with a space between (I will use Read-Host for that). So then I need to convert a space-separated string to an array for the foreach loop.
Thank you...
I would use the -split regex operator, like so:
$text = -split $text
You can also use it directly in the foreach() loop declaration:
foreach($fruit in -split $text)
{
"$fruit is a fruit"
}
In unary mode (like above), -split defaults to splitting on the delimeter \s+ (1 or more whitespace characters).
This is nice if a user accidentally enters consecutive spaces:
PS C:\> $text = Read-Host 'Input fruit names'
Input fruit names: Apple Pear Peaches Banana
PS C:\> $text = -split $text
PS C:\> $text
Apple
Pear
Peaches
Banana
Use Split()
$text = $text.Split(" ")
$text = $text -split " "
will work, provided that none of your fruit names are two words that you want to keep together.
$Text.Split(' ')
need more characters for answer.
$Text.Split(' ') rather than "need more characters for answer" - there's a reason more characters are required.
splitlike:$Text -split ' '