Vista - Re: parsing through an array with -match

-notmatch's pattern is a regEx and '$' is a regEx special character that has to be escaped. Try this:

if ($rec -match "MSSQL" -and $rec -notmatch "MSSQL\$MSAC")

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Kiron

One more thing, remember that PowerShell expands variables in a double quoted string.

# PowerShell sees $MSAC as a variable and expands it,
# since $MSAC is not a variable $null is expanded
$arr1 = "MSSQL", "MSSQL$MSAC", "MSSQLEXPRESS"
$arr1

# escape the '$' with a backtick
$arr2 = "MSSQL", "MSSQL`$MSAC", "MSSQLEXPRESS"
$arr2

# ...or single quote the element with '$'
$arr3 = "MSSQL", 'MSSQL$MSAC', "MSSQLEXPRESS"
$arr3

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Kiron