Choping up a string in powershell

I have a variable called $office
$Office = (get-aduser -Identity $Name -Properties * |select physicalDeliveryOfficeName).physicalDeliveryOfficeName
It produces results like this
01A;514;295;632;428;485;442;277;800;175
Of course it could be shorter or longer depending on how many locations the user is in.
Each location code will ALWAYS be separated by a semicolon.
Is there a way to break that up and use each code between the semicolons as a string that I could then use a foreach statement?
Thanks
Lishron

I had just found this article
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/06/11/powertip-split-string-with-powershell.aspx
Like it was written for me but you beat me to the bunch.
Thanks so so much!
Lishron

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Hi,
It seems you have got the answer in the thread which you asked in the Windows PowerShell forum as the link below.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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user4491593 wrote:
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this ?
Software developer

Hi,
The following code snippet for your reference:
public string RunPowershell(string powershellText, SPWeb web, string param1, string param2)
// Powershell ~= RunspaceFactory - i.e. Create a powershell context
var runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();
var resultString = new StringBuilder();
try
// load the SharePoint snapin - Note: you cannot do this in the script itself (i.e. add-pssnapin etc does not work)
PSSnapInException snapInError;
runspace.RunspaceConfiguration.AddPSSnapIn("Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell", out snapInError);
runspace.Open();
// set a web variable.
runspace.SessionStateProxy.SetVariable("webContext", web);
// and some user defined parameters
runspace.SessionStateProxy.SetVariable("param1", param1);
runspace.SessionStateProxy.SetVariable("param2", param2);
var pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline();
pipeline.Commands.AddScript(powershellText);
//add a "return" variable
pipeline.Commands.Add("Out-String");
var results = pipeline.Invoke();
//convert the script result into a single string
foreach (PSObject obj in results)
resultString.AppendLine(obj.ToString());
finally
// close the runspace
runspace.Close();
// consider logging the result. Or something.
return resultString.ToString();
More information:
Running Powershell from within SharePoint
http://geekswithblogs.net/Norgean/archive/2012/09/19/running-powershell-from-within-sharepoint.aspx
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support

Read a CSV file and dynamically generate the insert

I have a requirement where there are multiple csv's which needs to be exported to a sql table. So far, I am able to read the csv file and generate the insert statement dynamically for selected columns however, the insert statement when passed as a parameter
to the $cmd.CommandText
does not evaluate the values
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$insert = "INSERT INTO $Tablename ($ReqColumns) Values ('"
$valCols='';
$DataCols='';
$lists = $ReqColumns.split(",");
foreach($l in $lists)
$valCols= $valCols + '$($_.'+$l+')'','''
#Generate the values statement
$DataCols=($DataCols+$valCols+')').replace(",')","");
$insertStr =@("INSERT INTO $Tablename ($ReqColumns) Values ('$($DataCols))")
#The above statement generate the following insert statement
#INSERT INTO TMP_APPLE_EXPORT (PRODUCT_ID,QTY_SOLD,QTY_AVAILABLE) Values (' $($_.PRODUCT_ID)','$($_.QTY_SOLD)','$($_.QTY_AVAILABLE)' )
$cmd.CommandText = $insertStr #does not evaluate the values
#If the same statement is passed as below then it execute successfully
#$cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO TMP_APL_EXPORT (PRODUCT_ID,QTY_SOLD,QTY_AVAILABLE) Values (' $($_.PRODUCT_ID)','$($_.QTY_SOLD)','$($_.QTY_AVAILABLE)' )"
#Execute Query
$cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() | Out-Null
jyeragi

Hi Jyeragi,
To convert the data to the SQL table format, please try this function out-sql:
out-sql Powershell function - export pipeline contents to a new SQL Server table
If I have any misunderstanding, please let me know.
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Best Regards,
Anna
TechNet Community Support

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