Episode 159 – Tome Tanasovski on Regular Expressions and More

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Tome Tanasovski on regular expressions, the NYC PowerShell User Group, and more!
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News

• Tome’s new PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast!
• Don Jones’ Accelerated PowerShell Masterclass for Administrators - Five day class in October
• The Singapore PowerShell User Group is meeting August 27th
• PowerShell Script Club (Zurich) meets on September 6th

Interview

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Links:

• About Comparison Operators (PowerShell help)
• RegExr
• Expresso
• Chapter 13 from Mastering PowerShell (free e-book)
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• @regextip on Twitter
• Regular Expression Pocket Reference
• PowerShell 2.0 Bible

Buzz from the Chatroom:

• 21:47:07] <ToENuFF> ## Where are the ninjas at?
• [21:47:22] <mjl135> ## What does get-chumby do?
• [21:47:26] <StartAutomating> ## Why would any ninja want to know the dark arts of regex?
• [21:47:30] <Josh_Atwell> ### you can't see them...if you could then you would be dead
• [21:50:19] <RichPrescott> ## how is babby formed
• [21:50:20] <mjl135> ## Freebird!!!
• [21:51:39] <proxb> Still no power at the house so I am in my iPhone irc chat app
• [21:51:52] <JonWalz> that's hardcore
• [21:51:58] <DanielCruz> heck yea
• [22:04:51] <mjl135> ## best feature of -match is using (?<tag>)
• [22:04:56] <RichPrescott> Anyone have a beginner's beginners guide to Regex?  I'm tired of falling back on select-string instead of using regex.
• [22:15:07] <mjl135> ## Define look ahead and look behinds
• [22:15:35] <mjl135> ## How do you do multi line matches in PS RegEx
• [22:38:45] <ScriptingWife> ##is there a date for next years Techtravaganza

Questions:

Superhero: Phoenix

Resources

• Regular expressions with PowerShell
• Use regular expressions to format numbers
• Doug Finke posted info from his ShowUI Presentation
• Get-ProcessUpTime
• Dmitry has posted some of the slides from the Deep Dive Sessions
• Add Script Signing to the ISE
• Don Jones posted links to some great PowerShell videos

Tips

• Simple Breakpoints from @PowerTip
• $mail.body vs $mail.htmlbody