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Leverage the power of RegEx!
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Split-DN.ps1
# Negative lookbehind
function Split-DN{
param([String]$DN)
return $DN-split"(?<!\\),"
}
# Positive lookbehind with negative expression
function Split-DN{
param([String]$DN)
return $DN-split"(?<=[^\\]),"
}
# Usage:
Split-DN -DN "CN=User\, A Friendly,OU=Idiotas,DC=domain,DC=tld"
# Returns an ordered array containing each component in the DN: @("CN=User\, A Friendly","OU=Idiotas","DC=domain","DC=tld")
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