{"id":5013,"date":"2012-09-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/09\/06\/powertip-finding-letters-in-strings-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-finding-letters-in-strings-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-finding-letters-in-strings-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Finding Letters in Strings with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn four ways to use Windows PowerShell to find letters in strings.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, I want to find out if a string contains the letter “m.” The string is stored in the variable $a<\/b> as shown here:<\/p>\n

$a=”northern hairy-nosed wombat”<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Here are a variety of ways to accomplish this:<\/p>\n

a.  <\/strong>[string]$a.contains(“m”)<\/p>\n

b.<\/strong>  $a.contains(“m”)<\/p>\n

c.<\/strong>  [regex]::match($a,”m”)<\/p>\n

d.<\/strong>  ([regex]::match($a,”m”)).success<\/p>\n

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

Summary: Learn four ways to use Windows PowerShell to find letters in strings.  I want to find out if a string contains the letter “m.” The string is stored in the variable $a as shown here: $a=”northern hairy-nosed wombat”  Here are a variety of ways to accomplish this: a.  [string]$a.contains(“m”) b.  $a.contains(“m”) c.  [regex]::match($a,”m”) d.  ([regex]::match($a,”m”)).success<\/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-5013","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 four ways to use Windows PowerShell to find letters in strings.  I want to find out if a string contains the letter “m.” The string is stored in the variable $a as shown here: $a=”northern hairy-nosed wombat”  Here are a variety of ways to accomplish this: a.  [string]$a.contains(“m”) b.  $a.contains(“m”) c.  [regex]::match($a,”m”) d.  ([regex]::match($a,”m”)).success<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","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=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/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=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}