Powershell - store package loss and time in separate variables

Question

How can I store the average round trip time and the package loss in separate variables? I do not want to store the whole ping result. The output should just be:

In this case I want the output to be:

0% loss, 14 ms

Is this possible? THANKS!!

Answer 1

First things first: the usual recommendation applies:

• It's better to use a native PowerShell solutions, such as Test-NetConnection, which provides objects as output, whose properties you can access, which is both conceptually clearer and more robust than parsing what is invariably text output from external programs.

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You can use a switch statement with its -Regex option:

$lossPercent, $avgPingTime = 
  switch -regex (ping 8.8.8.8) {
    '(\d+)%' { [int] $Matches.1  }
    'Average = (\d+)ms' { [int] $Matches.1  }
  }

"$lossPercent% loss, $avgPingTime ms"

Note: $avgPingTime will be $null if no ping attempt succeeded.
It looks like $LASTEXITCODE -eq 1 returning $true indicates this condition too.