Parsing in powershell -

how can skuname following text using powershell?

input: [{\"sku\":\"sku7120234\" parsed out should be: sku7120234

also, given timestamp of \"timestamp\":1447964164371}. can 1 advise on how integer value in date format.

if have specific file type or structure should post , desired output mentioned in comments.

simply parsing asked:

$str = '[{\"sku\":\"sku7120234\"' 

option 1 - split string:

($str -split '\\')[3] -replace '"' 

option 2 - regex match:

[regex]::match($str,'sku\d+').groups[0].value 

results:

sku7120234 

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to millisecond timestamp datetime can this:

$ts = '\"timestamp\":1447964164371}' $epoch = [regex]::match($ts,'\d+').groups[0].value [datetime] $origin = '1970-01-01 00:00:00.000' [datetime] $result = $origin.addmilliseconds($epoch) 

result:

#datetime type object result $result thursday, november 19, 2015 8:16:04 pm #or formatted string $result.tostring() 11/19/2015 8:16:04 pm