Extract text from a string using Powershell

Question

I have a URL from which I need to extract a text. The URL is of the form:

abcd.com/File1/00012121
abcd.com/File12/00012121
abcd.com/File123/00012121

I need to extract File1, File12 and File123 respectively.

Answer 1

try

$URL -replace '.+\/(\w+)' , '$1'

Answer 2

You could try something like this:

('abcd.com/File1/00012121' -split '/')[1]

Or:

'bcd.com/File1/00012121' -split '/' | Select -First 1 -Skip 1