{"id":3228,"date":"2013-07-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/07\/16\/powertip-use-powershell-to-check-string-for-a-match\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-check-string-for-a-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-check-string-for-a-match\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Check String for a Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to check a string to see if it contains another string.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to check a string to see if it contains another string?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the –Match<\/strong> operator:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $a = [string]”This string contains a number of letters”<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $a -match ‘a number’<\/p>\n

True<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to check a string to see if it contains another string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to check a string to see if it contains another string?  Use the –Match operator: PS C:\\> $a = [string]”This string contains a number of letters” PS C:\\> $a -match ‘a number’ True<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn how to check a string to see if it contains another string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to check a string to see if it contains another string?  Use the –Match operator: PS C:\\> $a = [string]”This string contains a number of letters” PS C:\\> $a -match ‘a number’ True<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}