.net - How to split a string content into an array of strings in PowerShell?

Question

I have a string that has email addresses separated by semi-colon:

$address = "foo@bar.com; boo@bar.com; zoo@bar.com"

How can I split this into an array of strings that would result as the following?

[string[]]$recipients = "foo@bar.com", "boo@bar.com", "zoo@bar.com"

Answer 1

As of PowerShell 2, simple:

$recipients = $addresses -split "; "

Note that the right hand side is actually a case-insensitive regular expression, not a simple match. Use csplit to force case-sensitivity. See about_Split for more details.