indexOf replace in file

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I have a list of SQL Servers in a .csv file. Some of the SQL Servers are named instances and look like this. I need to strip the slash and everything after it. This snippet does that but I am not sure how to put it in a script:



$pos = “MySQLServer001\NamedInstance”.IndexOf("")


“MySQLServer001\NamedInstance”.substring(0,$pos)
The result is MySQLServer001

Not sure where to go from here:



$startingFile = “c:\temp\myServers.csv”


$endingFile = “c:\temp\myServers_NoSlashes.csv”

 

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There’d be an easier way I think:

‘MySQLServer001\NamedInstance’ -replace ‘\.*’

You should carefully read the help for Import-Csv and Export-Csv and Foreach-Object or Select-Object (calculated properties). You should read the complete help including the examples.