Question

I need assistance with a powershell script.

I have a value – 2.0.0.0 (it could be any value seperated with the 3 full stops)

I want to just get the first three numbers eg 2.0.0

With powershell, how can I do this?

Answer 1

A regular expression is a flexible way to do this:

"1.2.3.4" -replace "(.*)\.(.*)\.(.*)\.(.*)",'$1.$2.$3'

or inspired by Shay Levy’s answer:

You could use the toString method with a fieldcount of three:

([version]"1.2.3.4").tostring(3)