Extract text from a string
The following regex extract anything between the parenthesis:
PS> $prog = [regex]::match($s,'\(([^\)]+)\)').Groups[1].Value
PS> $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 «\)»
Further Reading:
- Regular-Expressions.info
- Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 1)
- Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 2)
- Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 3)
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]
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]