CODEWITHSUNDEEP
powershell
cwm9
cwm9

Reputation: 773

How do I combine these two powershell script lines?

I'm so new at powerscript I don't even know the right question to ask, so I can't even search for what I imagine is a common question.

I have:

$temp=$_|Select-String 'Game started at: (.*?)\n'
$timestamp=$temp.matches[0].groups[1].value

I tried:

$timestamp=$_|Select-String 'Game started at: (.*?)\n'.matches[0].groups[1].value

and 

$timestamp=$_|Select-String 'Game started at: (.*?)\n'|echo $_.matches[0].groups[1].value

which didn't work.

How do I properly combine the two lines into one?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 162

Answers (1)

Frode F.
Frode F.

Reputation: 54821

I don't know what your piped object($_) was originally, but try this:

$timestamp = $_| Select-String 'Game started at: (.*?)\n' | % { $_.Matches[0].groups[1].value }

Select-String pipes an array as results, so you need to use a foreach-loop(% is short alias) to loop through each string even if it's just one, and get the value you want.

Upvotes: 1

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