I am writing a script that needs to be able to search through a text
file and search for the below string:

"var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30"

I want to change the value of this setting from 30 to 50 using -replace,
but I'm having a hard time getting select-string to match this string.

So I've started with something simple like:

select-string "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30" localization.js



Which fails, but if I just search for "var INT_NMAX_BODY" it matches, so
the spaces appear to be the problem.

In the end what I'm trying to do is this:

$content = get-content -path localizatin.js | foreach {$_ -replace "var
INT_NMAX_BODY = 30", "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 50"}

I'm using select-string to test my matching first and it's not working
as I'd hoped. Could someone point me into the right direction?

Thanks for any input or suggestions,
Steven

I don't have your file but I hope this example can give you a start:

PS C:\Scripts>$text = "some additional text var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30
some additional text "
PS C:\Scripts>[regex]::Replace($text,"var INT_NMAX_BODY\s+= (30)","50")

some additional text var INT_NMAX_BODY = 50 some additional text



Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

> I am writing a script that needs to be able to search through a text
> file and search for the below string:
>
> "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30"
>
> I want to change the value of this setting from 30 to 50 using
> -replace, but I'm having a hard time getting select-string to match
> this string.
>
> So I've started with something simple like:
>
> select-string "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30" localization.js
>
> Which fails, but if I just search for "var INT_NMAX_BODY" it matches,
> so the spaces appear to be the problem.
>
> In the end what I'm trying to do is this:
>
> $content = get-content -path localizatin.js | foreach {$_ -replace
> "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30", "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 50"}
>
> I'm using select-string to test my matching first and it's not working
> as I'd hoped. Could someone point me into the right direction?
>
> Thanks for any input or suggestions,
> Steven

# to find the string in the file

select-string 'var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30' localizatin.js
select-string 'var INT_NMAX_BODY {9}= 30' localizatin.js
select-string 'var INT_NMAX_BODY += 30' localizatin.js

# replace 'var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30' by capturing two groups
# and placing the first one '$1' back plus the new value separated by a space
# foreach is not necessary, if you get all the contents at once by
# wraping the command in an expression, -replace still process each line

$content = (get-content -path localizatin.js) -replace '(var INT_NMAX_BODY =)( 30)', '$1 50'
$content = (get-content -path localizatin.js) -replace '(var INT_NMAX_BODY {9}=)( 30)', '$1 50'
$content = (get-content -path localizatin.js) -replace '(var INT_NMAX_BODY +=)( 30)', '$1 50'

--
Kiron

Thanks both Shay and Kiron, I used a combination of what both of you
suggested to get what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!

$cont = (get-content -path localization.js) -replace 'var
INT_NMAX_BODY\s+= 30','var INT_NMAX_BODY = 50'

Steven wrote:

> I am writing a script that needs to be able to search through a text
> file and search for the below string:
>
> "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30"
>
> I want to change the value of this setting from 30 to 50 using -replace,
> but I'm having a hard time getting select-string to match this string.
>
> So I've started with something simple like:
>
> select-string "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30" localization.js
>
> Which fails, but if I just search for "var INT_NMAX_BODY" it matches, so
> the spaces appear to be the problem.
>
> In the end what I'm trying to do is this:
>
> $content = get-content -path localizatin.js | foreach {$_ -replace "var
> INT_NMAX_BODY = 30", "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 50"}
>
> I'm using select-string to test my matching first and it's not working
> as I'd hoped. Could someone point me into the right direction?
>
> Thanks for any input or suggestions,
> Steven

"Steven"

> I am writing a script that needs to be
> able to search through a text
> file and search for the below string:
>
> "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30"
>
> I want to change the value of this
> setting from 30 to 50

FYI

Another way is Microsoft's data parser
(with a built-in graph / chart maker that
uses the Microsoft ChartSpace objects)!

PS> $text = "Start of text file`n"
PS> $text += "var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30`n"
PS> $text += "End of text file."
PS> $text
Start of text file
var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30
End of text file.
PS> $newText = $text | LogParser.exe "SELECT
REPLACE_STR(Text,
'var INT_NMAX_BODY = 30',
'var INT_NMAX_BODY = 50') FROM
STDIN" -i:textline -headersff -statsff
PS> $newText
Start of text file
var INT_NMAX_BODY = 50
End of text file.
PS>

Sometimes a Log Parser one liner
at the command line will replace text
in many files without any script usage
at all too!

Yep Microsoft's Log Parser 2.2
is Microsoft's data parsing tool.