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Regular Expressions (REGEX): Grouping & [RegEx]

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18
Kory Thacher
Welcome back to the RegEx crash course. Last time we talked about the basic symbols we plan to use as our foundation. This week, we will be learning a new way to leverage our patterns for data extraction and how to rip our extracted data into pieces we care about. [RegEx] The  data type has some cool static members,  but we're mostly going...

Regular Expressions (REGEX): Basic symbols

July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18
Kory Thacher
Welcome back to the RegEx guide. Last post we talked a little bit about the basics of RegEx and its uses. I mentioned the most important thing is to understand the symbols. Today we'll ease in with some of the basics to get us going, but later we will expand on these and see some other options we have.  is used to represent any single ...

Regular Expressions (REGEX): Introduction

July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18
Kory Thacher
Hi all, this week I'll be talking about Regular Expressions. I've got a few posts planned to get you set up and going with some basic Regex. Regex is used for extracting and validating data. Essentially, you can think of Regex as windows wild cards on steroids. Anytime we need to match data with a little more clarity than the *s and ?s ...

PowerTip: Use a regular expression pattern to remove nonalphabetic characters

April 15, 2016 Apr 15, 2016 04/15/16
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Learn how to use a regular expression pattern to remove non-alphabetic characters from a string by using Windows PowerShell. (image)  How can I use Windows PowerShell to remove non-alphabetic characters from a string? (image)  To remove nonalphabetic characters from a string, you can use the -Replace operator and substitute an ...