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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks
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PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

by Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat
February 2017
Beginner
737 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Regular expressions examples

When you are developing scripts, there will be many instances where you may want to use regular expressions. This section will explore regular expressions that you may run into in your environment. Since there are many methods to creating regular expressions, these are to be used as suggested starting points for your scripts.

The following diagram shows how to evaluate a MAC Address:

Regular expressions examples

To test a MAC address against a regular expression, use this syntax:

"00:a0:f8:12:34:56" -match "^([0-9a-f]{2}:){5}[0-9a-f]{2}$"

The output of this is shown in the following screenshot:

The preceding example shows how to create a regular expression ...

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