Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

ConvertFrom-String

Convert-FromString and PowerShell Core ConvertFrom-String is not available in PowerShell Core 6.1. It may reappear in a later version, or may be moved to a separate module.

ConvertFrom-String has two different styles of operation. The first behaves much as ConvertFrom-Csv does, except that it doesn't discard characters that make up the CSV format. In the following example, the quotation marks surrounding the first name are preserved:

PS> '"bob",tim,geoff' | ConvertFrom-String -Delimiter ',' -PropertyNames name1, name2, name3name1 name2 name3----- ----- -----"bob" tim   geoff 

The default delimiter (if the parameter is not supplied) is a space. The second operating mode of ConvertFrom-String is far more complex. A template ...