How to split a string content into an array of strings in PowerShell?

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I have a string that has email addresses separated by semi-colon:

$address = "[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]"

How can I split this into an array of strings that would result as the following?

[string[]]$recipients = "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"

Possible duplicate of Split string with PowerShell and do something with each token — Michael Freidgeim
– Michael Freidgeim, Commented Jan 14, 2017 at 12:24

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-03 22:46:28Z

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As of PowerShell 2, simple:

$recipients = $addresses -split "; "

Note that the right hand side is actually a case-insensitive regular expression, not a simple match. Use csplit to force case-sensitivity. See about_Split for more details.

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Shay Levy · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-10 16:24:35Z

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[string[]]$recipients = $address.Split('; ',[System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

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DarkAjax · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-06 20:19:51Z

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Remove the spaces from the original string and split on semicolon

$address = "[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]"
$addresses = $address.replace(' ','').split(';')

Or all in one line:

$addresses = "[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]".replace(' ','').split(';')

$addresses becomes:

@('[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]')

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