It is annoying that -split has to be in the front with no arguments, and in the back with a custom delimiter. Here's a cut function I made, like the unix command. So you can just say "string | cut -f 3":
function cut {
param(
[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$True)] [string]$inputobject,
[string]$delimiter='\s+',
[string[]]$field
)
process {
if ($field -eq $null) { $inputobject -split $delimiter } else {
($inputobject -split $delimiter)[$field] }
}
}
