Vista - dir -recurse | where { $_.FullName -match "[^ASP]" }

Hi there,

I'm trying to run this in the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET directory, but
it does not exclude the files containing ASP.. Is the regex wrong or
does this have to do with the quotes?

Regards

Dreamlusion wrote:Try the -notmatch operator and drop the caret. As to the question of whether
your regex is wrong, that's a difficult question. Is any regex "wrong"? I'd
like to think that all regular expressions have a right to live. Who are we to
judge them? Don't answer that.

dir -r | ? { $_.name -notmatch "asp" }

That will give you all filenames which do not contain the string "asp". When
you put "[ASP]", that matches any string which contains the letters "A", "S", or
"P"--possibly a much wider set than you intended.


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IMO... I think testing the file extension would be better here as it is
possible a file could have asp in the name.

dir -r | ? { $_.extension-notmatch "asp" }


"Hal Rottenberg" <hal@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 27, 4:08*am, "Brandon [MVP]" <tshell.m...@xxxxxx> wrote:Brandon,

My intension was to exclude an alphanumeric sequence (in this case
ASP) from the full path name to test how the match operator works, but
I wasn't clear from the beginning. Thank you very much for your reply.
Hal that was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you :-)

It can be done without a regex:

dir C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET -Exclude *asp*


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I think [^ASP] matches only one character strings that are neither "A" nor
"S" and "P" ;o)
Regex are powerfull but hard to write correctly !
Here the good answer is : do it another way, just as told before...

"Shay Levi" wrote: