February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
632 pages
20h 20m
English
This chapter covers
Regular expressions are a powerful and complex language you can use to describe data patterns. Most pattern-based data, including email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, and more, can be represented as a “regex,” as they’re also known.
We need to set some limits for this chapter, because regular expressions are complex enough to deserve their own book. PowerShell uses industry-standard regex syntax and supports the full .NET regular expression library, but we’ll only be covering the basics. Most of our focus will be on how PowerShell ...