The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.

Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

Use PowerShell to Search a Group of Files for Phone Numbers

March 24, 2011 Mar 24, 2011 03/24/11

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Summary: Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to easily search a collection of files for phone numbers. Spring has nearly sprung in Charlotte, North Carolina. The weather seems to alternate between absolutely perfect to a little cool with rain. Today, at least so far this morning, it is quite pleasant. I am sitting on the back ...

Use PowerShell to Look for Phone Numbers in Text

March 23, 2011 Mar 23, 2011 03/23/11

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Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to use a regular expression pattern to look for phone numbers in text files. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I am looking over some of the slide decks from the Columbia, South Carolina SQL Saturday #70 event. There were a couple of really good Windows PowerShell sessions during the day (...

Scripting Wife Uses Regular Expressions to Match a String

March 20, 2011 Mar 20, 2011 03/20/11

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Summary: On the road to the 2011 Scripting Games, the Scripting Wife learns about regular expressions and string matching. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. The Scripting Wife and I decided to head to Hilton Head Island (no relation to Paris Hilton; and therefore, no teacup Chihuahuas around) for the weekend. One of ...

Use PowerShell Regular Expressions to Parse an RSS Feed

March 4, 2011 Mar 4, 2011 03/4/11

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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell regular expressions to parse an RSS feed. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find patterns in text with regular expressions when I am unsure of where line breaks will occur in the text I am reading? —TT (image) Hello TT, Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson here. Today Tome Tanasovski is ...

Use PowerShell Regular Expressions to Format Numbers

March 3, 2011 Mar 3, 2011 03/3/11

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Summary: Microsoft MVP, Tome Tanasovski, shows how to use regular expression lookaheads and lookbehinds in Windows PowerShell to format numbers. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I use a regular expression to add the appropriate commas to a number? —TT (image) Hello TT, Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Guest Blogger ...

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