{"id":6561,"date":"2015-04-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/19\/powertip-return-specific-number-of-letters-from-string\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:50","slug":"powertip-return-specific-number-of-letters-from-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-return-specific-number-of-letters-from-string\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Return Specific Number of Letters from String"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to return a specific number of letters from a string.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily to retrieve the first two letters from a string?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>SubString<\/b>&nbsp;method from a string, and then specify the starting the position and the number <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of letters to return, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">PS C:\\&gt; (&quot;string&quot;).Substring(0,2)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">st<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to return a specific number of letters from a string. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily to retrieve the first two letters from a string? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;SubString&nbsp;method from a string, and then specify the starting the position and the number &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of letters to return, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to return a specific number of letters from a string. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily to retrieve the first two letters from a string? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;SubString&nbsp;method from a string, and then specify the starting the position and the number &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;of letters to return, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}