extract what inside the parentheses

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I have this : $Qname = dspmq | where {$_ -like ‘q’} | Select-Object $_

output of $Qname is :

QMNAME(q.something.1) STATUS(Running)
QMNAME(q.something.2) STATUS(Running)
QMNAME(q.something.3) STATUS(Running)

each line is a separate string ( QMNAME(q.something.1) STATUS(Running) ) is 1 line

I’m trying to extract :

q.something.1

q.something.2

q.something.3

I tried :

$Qname = dspmq | where {$_ -like ‘q’} | Select-Object $_
$Qnames = “”
foreach ($q in $Qname) {
$Qnames += $q -match ‘.?((.?)).’ }
$Qnames = $matches

or similar things but I always get

Name Value

1 q.something.3
0 E(q.something.3 .3) STATUS(Running)}

so I only get 1 match

I need to find a way to extract the data of each first parentheses of each line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

I hold my hands up and admit I’m a beginner with this type of thing but how about this:

$Qname = "QMNAME(q.something.1) STATUS(Running)","QMNAME(q.something.2) STATUS(Running)","QMNAME(q.something.3) STATUS(Running)"
$Qnames = @()
foreach($item in $Qname){
$Qnames+=($item-Split'QMNAME(',-1,'simplematch'-Split')',-1,'SimpleMatch')[1]
}
$Qnames
Which returns:
q.something.1
q.something.2
q.something.3
 
 
3

A simple RegEx…

'QMNAME(q.something.1)     STATUS(Running)',
'QMNAME(q.something.2)     STATUS(Running)',
'QMNAME(q.something.3)     STATUS(Running)' | 
ForEach {[regex]::Match($PSItem,'(q.*)\d').Value}

# Results

q.something.1
q.something.2
q.something.3
4

… or you could use the -split method like this:

'QMNAME(q.something.1)     STATUS(Running)',
'QMNAME(q.something.2)     STATUS(Running)',
'QMNAME(q.something.3)     STATUS(Running)' |
    ForEach-Object {
        ($_ -split "\(|\)")[1]
    }
# Results

q.something.1
q.something.2
q.something.3
5

thanks . It worked