How To Use Regular Expressions To Match Strings In PowerShell
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If you ever need to match a pattern using PowerShell, the most efficient way to do so is to use a Regular Expressions. Except that regular expressions are complicated, difficult to use, and a nightmare to debug... Or are they? Maybe it is time to try them out!
In this snip, Anthony will get you started using regular expressions in PowerShell to match a pattern in a string. In this case, he'll walk through matching a number in a string, but only matching numbers that are less than 200. This will be a quick introduction to using '\d' with the -match operator.
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