Results from Regular Expression Match

All,

I have the following script in file parser.ps1.

$a = get-content "C:\__Junk\ParseLuts\2008.05.01.log"
foreach ($i in $a)
{
$regex = [regex] "(?<= AE).*(?= on Host)"
$re = $regex.match($i)
$re
}

Upon running this I get the following back when the match is true:

Groups : { SMHMASTERA_SCU}
Success : True
Captures : { SMHMASTERA_SCU}
Index : 14
Length : 15
Value : SMHMASTERA_SCU

I only want to redirect the results for "Value" into a file. How can I just
get the Value of "Value" and redirect into a file rather than everything from
Groups to Length?

Thanks from this newbie.

Mike

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6179FCE3-31C3-4D91-87CF-E560F23FE7A2@xxxxxx Change the last $re to:

$re.Value >> <path to file>

BTW you can also accomplish this a bit more succinctly by using switch like
so:

switch -regex -file C:\__Junk\ParseLuts\200805.01.log {
'(?<= AE).*(?= on Host)' { $matches[1] >> <path to file> }
}

--
Keith

Here are a some more ideas:

# some global variables
$log = 'C:\__Junk\ParseLuts\2008.05.01.log'
$regex = [regex]'(?<= AE).*(?= on Host)'
$a = gc $log

# 1 - original modified
$values1 = $(foreach ($i in $a) {
$re = $regex.match($i)
if ($re.success) {$re.value} # avoid blanks
})

# 2 - using Switch (Keith's has a bug)
$values2 = $(switch -r -f $log {$regex {$matches[0]}})

# 3 - using Select-String
$values3 = $(select-string $regex $log |
% {$_.matches} | % {$_.value})

# 4 - using the Matches Method
$values4 = $regex.matches(($a | out-string)) | % {$_.value}

# write to file
sc .\out.txt $values4

gc .\out.txt

--
Kiron