Replace UID in a string

[~L0ckd0wn~ Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 0 Points: 12Rank: Member]

Hey guys,

I'm new to powershell and any of it's machinations thus I would like to get some help with a -replace issue which I'm stuck with.

I'm trying to replace string in logs due to data security reason. What needs to be replaced is:

LogOnUsers : Companyname\UserID

I would like to replace the actual UserID with "UserID" to mask the identity of the users.

The userid always starts with a country code 2 char followed 6 char unique identifier so it is  8 char overall.  I need to find this line in a large description string and replace it starting after companyname\

What I've tried is:

-replace "companyname\\.+?" , "UserID"   // which is not good as this will only replace the line starting from the companyname\\userID with UserID and I'm left with whatever is longer then the UserID so 6 char. Can you help with a regex solution which takes it into consideration the UserID is not a fixed value but it is constant 8 char at least what might help.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

[rejikodiyil Participant Topics: 0 Replies: 26 Points: 124Rank: Participant]

Just try below option.

-replace '\\[^\s]*','\UserID'

It is under the assumption that your line contains "company\userName" followed by a space. The regex will look for a backslash in a string and it will replace the text after the backslash with UserID. If you have a backslash in any other place, then try below

-replace 'companyname\\[^\s]*','\UserID'

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