Question

How can I split a string?

I would like to turn C:\RoamingFiles\D\file.txt to D:\file.txt.

I’m not sure how to do it, as split won’t filter out C:\RoamingFiles\ as I want.

Answer 1

I’m a little confused as to what exactly you want -split to do here. It seems like

$myString -replace '^C:\\RoamingFiles\\([^\\]+)\\', '$1:\'

would work better for what you seem to be doing there. This essentially replaces the path component C:\RoamingFiles\ with the drive letter that follows. But this is all pretty much guesswork since you gave only one example.