Hello,

How can I use the named captures feature for regular expressions in PS?

It's not apparent to me how I can retrieve the capture using the name instead of locating the index.

I'd put in an example but this message editor won't let me insert the angle brackets, even using < and > it treats them as actual HTML instead of part of the message.

Thanks.

mp

[regex]::Matches("a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog","\S\s(?< Speed >\S+)\s(?< Color >\S+)")             
 $Matches.Speed             
 $Matches.Color             
              
 "a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" |             
     Where-Object {$_ -match "\S\s(?< Speed >\S+)\s(?< Color >\S+)"}|              
     Select-Object @{             
         name='Speed'             
         Expression={$Matches.speed}             
     },             
     @{             
         name='Color'             
         Expression={$Matches.Color}             
     }             
 

~Glenn