Reply To: How to take specific words as objects from the text

This is also relatively easy to accomplish with a regex.

$hosts = Get-Content .\hostfile.txt
foreach ($computer in $hosts)
{
    $computer -match '-host "(?<hostname>.*?)"' | Out-Null
    $Matches['hostname']
}

I will also echo Dave’s comments about the quote marks in the original post. The above works with standard quotes (ASCII 34).