title: Extracting columns from text file using PowerShell
body: <p>I have to extract columns from a text file explained in this post:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2499746/extracting-columns-from-text-file-using-perl-similar-to-unix-cut">Extracting columns from text file using Perl one-liner: similar to Unix cut</a></p>
  
  <p>but I have to do this also in a Windows Server 2008 which does not have Perl installed. How could I do this using PowerShell? Any ideas or resources? I'm PowerShell noob...</p>