Get contents from within the square brackets

[dbutch1976]

Hello,

Hopefully this is an easy question:

I need to get a datastore name from within the square brackets of a field of an array:

$vm.datastorefullpath = [IOMEGA_lun01] myvm-new-1/myvm-new-1.vmx

Trying to get the datastore name so I can use it here:
Get-Datastore -Name ???

Thanks!

[LucD]

Did you try with single quotes?

$vm.datastorefullpath = '[IOMEGA_lun01] myvm-new-1/myvm-new-1.vmx'

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[ganapa2000]

If want to extract the datastore name then try as below

$DatastoreName = ($vm.datastorefullpath -split '\s')[0].Trim('[]')
Write-Output $DatastoreName

[dbutch1976]

Yes, that's what I need, sorry for the poorly worded question.

Thanks!