Vista - Trying to -match across lines of a .txt

Hi,

I have a .txt file that contains:-

CSC120 20/05/08 16:55:39 2376032
OPRDATA: 28 0 4 15 57540
garbage
garbage
garbage
CSC120 20/05/08 16:55:42 2376033
OPRDATA: 68 1 6 15 53218
garbage
garbage

And so on.

I'm trying to find a way to match the entirety of the two lines that
begin 'CSC' and 'OPRDATA' but I want a single match for both these
lines. I'd like to use a regex for this.

I could probably do a 'foreach' with an 'if' to iterate through all
the lines, and I could also just grab all the line matches for 'CSC'
then all the line matches for 'OPR' then bolt them together - but I
want to use a regex as it will be more extensible for other things
that I want to do.

In the hex view of the .txt I can see an '0D 0A" at the end of the
'CSC' line so I've tried a regex featuring CRLF but can't seem to find
a way to get the match to span both lines.

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Stuart

On May 21, 4:54 pm, Kryten <Kryte...@xxxxxx> wrote:Stuart,

You will need to look at your file as one string:

$contents = ( Get-Content file.txt ) | Out-String

Once you have that, the regular expression is pretty simple:

[regex]::Matches( $contents, "CSC[^\n]*\s+OPRDATA[^\n]*" ) |
Foreach-Object { $_.Value }

I hope that helps.

Jeff

It helps immensely Jeff.

I have to keep reminding myself that get-content is returning an
'array of strings', not one big string :-)

Thanks for keeping me right, it's doing what I want now.

Regards,

Stuart