Powershell Regular Expressions Save the Day

Powershell Regular Expressions Save the Day

Copy a string from between two other characters/strings (as in a UNC Path).

I had a UNC path like this:
\\server\share\folder\folder\folder\file.txt

I needed to rip out just the server part of that whole mess, which I did so with this regular expression (after fooling with it for way too long!!):

$TargetUNC = "\\server\share\folder\folder\folder\file.txt"
$ServerName = [regex]::match($TargetUNC,'[^\\]+').value
#The line above will strip out "server" from the UNC string and save it to variable $ServerName