A way to ignore certain characters when going get-content?

[akcorr]

I want to ignore any line that begins with #. I'm not sure how to do it and
I just starting working with regex.

Thanks in advance.

[Marco Shaw [MVP]]

PS > gc testing.txt
foo
#bar
123
PS >
# Something like this for v1:
PS > gc testing.txt| `
>> %{if($_ -match "^#"){"starts with #"}else{"doesn't start with #"}}
>>
doesn't start with #
starts with #
doesn't start with #
# Now for v2 CTP/CTP2:
PS > gc testing.txt|select-string -notmatch "^#"

foo
123

PS >

-NotMatch does add annoying blank lines to the output...

Marco

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[Marco Shaw [MVP]]

Another way:

PS > gc testing.txt|`
>>%{if($_.startswith("#")){"starts with #"}else{"doesn't start with #"}}
>>

Of course there are even more possibilities...

[Arnoud Jansveld]

Why not just:

(Get-Content testing.txt) -notmatch '^#'

Simple and fast!

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[akcorr]

Awesome! Worked great! Thanks!

[Marco Shaw [MVP]]

Arnoud Jansveld wrote:
> Why not just:
>
> (Get-Content testing.txt) -notmatch '^#'
>
> Simple and fast!
>

Yup, you're right on that one...

Marco

[Karl Prosser[MVP]]

Do a regex a day, lest you lose it away.

[Jon]

"akcorr" <akc...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7D2E4A9C-FC14-4281...@microsoft.com...

In the interests of throwing a spanner into the works, and also because I'm
a believer in the virtues of readable code (which generally means avoiding
regular expressions)....

Get-Content C:\Somefile.txt | Where {-not ($_.StartsWith('#'))}

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Jon