Vista - Working with Piped output

I have a PS script that queries an event log and pipes the output of the log
to text file. then i need to get-content and get a guid from the textfile
using a regex. but the piped output is read as seperate strings and is
screwing up. Everything works fine when the output is a contigious string
(for testing). help me out, please. i've tried out-string.

the regex works, but the output of the get-eventlog cmdlet seperates
everything into dif strings so that the GUID never appears like this ( GUID )
but rather this: ( GU

ID)


SCRIPT STARTS HERE:


$a = get-date
$LogTime = $a.toshortdatestring()

get-eventlog -newest 10 -logname "Operations Manager" | where {$_.EventID
-eq 33333 -and $_.message -like "*777980008*" -and $_.TimeWritten -like
"$LogTime*"} | format-list * | out-file "C:\AlertBody.txt"

$ProxyAlert= gc "C:\AlertBody.txt"

$AgentGuid=if($ProxyAlert -match '\( ([-a-z0-9]+) \) '){$matches[1]}

SCRIPT STOPS HERE

For formatting reasons i can send anyone the textfile outputs that work (i
manually cut and paste), and the output that doesn't work (from the cmdlet
pipe)

Thanks!

And the regex doesn't work... because i'm lame.

"NPopovich" wrote:

ok, got the regex

($proxyalert -match '\( ([-a-z0-9]+) \) ')

$AgentGUID=$matches[1]


"NPopovich" wrote:

ok, i figured it out:

select-object -expand was the key for me. My finished piece:

$proxyalert=get-eventlog -newest 20000 -logname "Operations Manager" | where
{$_.EventID -eq 33333 -and $_.message -like "*777980008*" -and $_.TimeWritten
-like "$
LogTime*"} | select-object -expand ReplacementStrings

AgentGuid=$matches[1]

"NPopovich" wrote: