Select a particular character & if else

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Hello everyone,

The scenario i have is that, i have list of objects in the array for the most part each object in the array has the same character length (trxc-fa01-tc01,trxc-fa02-tc01) but then there are a few different ones such as (trxc-pvc05 and trxc-dtc01) so i am trying something very basic; pretty much with if else statement but having hard time to extract the character number [8] from my value.

Sample script:

$MyServers = @(“trxc-fa06-tc01”, “trxc-fa05-tc01”, “trxc-fa04-tc01”, “trxc-fa03-tc01”, “trxc-pvc05”, “trxc-fa01-tc01”, “trxc-dtc01”, “trxc-sa01-tc01”)

ForEach ($Server in $MyServers) {
if ($Server -like ‘pvc05’) {

Write-Host “$Server is in Cage1”
}
elseif ($Server -like ‘dtc01’) {

Write-Host “$Server is in Cage2”
}
else {

Write-Host “$Server is in Cage [character 8]”

character 8 would be like trxc-fa06-tc01 so it would print “trxc-fa06-tc01” is in cage 6

}
}

 

Does it make sense?

Thank you.

 

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Do you mean something like this?

$MyServers = @('trxc-fa06-tc01', 'trxc-fa05-tc01', 'trxc-fa04-tc01', 'trxc-fa03-tc01', 'trxc-pvc05', 'trxc-fa01-tc01', 'trxc-dtc01', 'trxc-sa01-tc01')

ForEach ($Server in $MyServers) {
    if ($Server -like '*pvc05*') {
        "$Server is in Cage1"
    }
    elseif ($Server -like '*dtc01*') {
        "$Server is in Cage2"
    }
    else {
        "$Server is in Cage $($Server.substring(8,1))"
    }
}
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Exactly, awesome thank you so much.