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Bernie
Bernie

Reputation: 127

powershell contains not working

I am trying filter by the name of each share using $Share.Name. However, when I try to use -contains in the if statement below, I get no results.

The result I want should be ADMIN$ - C:\ADMIN$

I am working my way to being able to have a variable like: $ExcludeShares = "ADMIN$" and filtering based on if the $String.Name is in $ExcludeShares

I am open to ideas on other ways to filter this.

Thanks in advance!

function GetAllUsedShares{
    [psobject]$Shares = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_share
    Foreach($Share in $Shares){
        $name = [string]$Share.Name
        if ($name -contains 'admin'){
            Write-Host $Share.Name - $Share.Path
        }

    }   
}

Upvotes: 8

Views: 32161

Answers (5)

Mike Q
Mike Q

Reputation: 7327

Case Insensitive Usage

'WINLOGON','Something' -contains 'WinLogon'
True

'WINLOGON','Something' -contains 'WINLOGON'
True

'winlogon' -in 'WINLOGON','Something'
True

Case Sensitive Usage

'WINLOGON','Something' -ccontains 'WinLogon'
False

'WINLOGON','Something' -ccontains 'WINLOGON'
True

'winlogon' -in 'WINLOGON','Something'
True

$Array.Contains('WINLOGON')

Case-Insensitive - All Uppercase

Not needed but can make things all uppercase for comparison purposes.

$All = Get-Process -ComputerName $Target | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name | Select-Object -Unique
$check = @('winLogon', 'Something') 

# not needed but maybe for testing etc. 
$All = $All.ToUpper() # e.g. WINLOGON, W3WP, etc
$Check = $Check.ToUpper() #.e.g. WINLOGON, SOMETHING

If ($All -Contains $Check[0]) { ...

Upvotes: 0

js2010
js2010

Reputation: 27418

Bizarrely, .contains() acts like -contains on arrays:

$a = 'one','two','three'
$a.contains('one')
True

$a.contains('o')
False

$a.contains

OverloadDefinitions
-------------------
bool IList.Contains(System.Object value)

Upvotes: 0

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 46680

Contains is meant to work against arrays. Consider the following examples

PS C:\Users\Cameron> 1,2,3 -contains 1
True

PS C:\Users\Cameron> "123" -contains 1
False

PS C:\Users\Cameron> "123" -contains 123
True

If you are looking to see if a string contains a text pattern then you have a few options. The first 2 would be -match operator or the .Contains() string method

  1. -match would be one of the simpler examples to use in and If statement. Note: -Match supports .Net regular expressions so be sure you don't put in any special characters as you might not get the results you expect. 

    PS C:\Users\Cameron> "Matt" -match "m"
True

PS C:\Users\Cameron> "Matt" -match "."
True

    -match is not case sensitive by default so the first example above returns True. The second example is looking to match any character which is what . represents in regex which is why it returns True as well.

  2. .Contains(): -match is great but for simple strings you can ....

    "123".Contains("2")
True

"123".Contains(".")
False

    Note that .Contains() is case sensitive

    "asdf".Contains('F')
False

"asdf".Contains('f')
True

Upvotes: 25

jurgenb
jurgenb

Reputation: 472

You can do this in one line: 

Get-WmiObject -Class win32_share | where -Property Name -like "*admin*" | % { "$($_.Name) - $($_.Path)" }

Don't forget the asterisks in the where statement. It looks for exact values in that case.

If you want to write it out, this does the same thing:

$shares = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_share

# I pipe the $shares collection into the where-object command to filter on "admin"
$adminshares = $shares | where -property Name -like "*admin*"

# now we can loop with a foreach, which has the "%" operator as it's shorthand in the oneliner
foreach ($share in $adminshares) 
{
    # variables in strings are a bit weird in powershell, but you have to wrap them like this
    write-host "$($share.Name) - $($share.Path)"
}

Upvotes: 1

mcarmean09
mcarmean09

Reputation: 1

If you are testing $name for exactly 'admin' you can use the -eq comparator. This checks if the contents of $name equal the contents of your specified string 'admin'

Upvotes: 0

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