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Mastering PowerShell Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering PowerShell Scripting Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206540
Length 788 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell 2. Modules and Snap-Ins FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell 4. Operators 5. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 6. Conditional Statements and Loops 7. Working with .NET 8. Strings, Numbers, and Dates 9. Regular Expressions 10. Files, Folders, and the Registry 11. Windows Management Instrumentation 12. Working with HTML, XML, and JSON 13. Web Requests and Web Services 14. Remoting and Remote Management 15. Asynchronous Processing 16. Graphical User Interfaces 17. Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks 18. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters 19. Classes and Enumerations 20. Building Modules 21. Testing 22. Error Handling 23. Debugging and Troubleshooting 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index

Regular Expressions

You can use regular expressions (regex) to perform searches against a text. For the uninitiated, anything but a trivial regular expression can be a confusing mess. To make the topic more difficult, regular expressions differ slightly across different programming languages, platforms, and tools. Given that PowerShell is built on .NET, PowerShell uses .NET-style regular expressions. There are often several different ways to achieve a goal when using regular expressions.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Regex basics
  • Anchors
  • Quantifiers
  • Character classes
  • Alternation
  • Grouping
  • Look-ahead and look-behind
  • The .NET Regex type
  • Regex options
  • Examples of regular expressions

Regular expressions can be complex, but knowing a small set of basic characters provides a useful foundation to build upon.

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