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Paulo
Paulo

Reputation: 33

Get-Content Replace a full string

So I have the following command:

(Get-Content $path).Replace($current, $new) | Set-Content $path

It works fine for changing a string but lets say I have the following string in $path : "This is a test. testing was done."

If i set $current to "test" and $new to "Blah". I'll get "This is a Blah. Blahing was done."

How do I make it so that it only changes "test" and not "testing" so my string would be: "This is a blah. testing was done."?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2460

Answers (2)

Itchydon
Itchydon

Reputation: 2596

 $path = "This is a test. testing was done."   
 $current = "\btest\b" 
 $new = "Blah"
 $path -replace ($current, $new)

\b is a regular expression word boundary

Upvotes: 3

Jeff Zeitlin
Jeff Zeitlin

Reputation: 10799

Instead of using the Replace() method, try using the -replace operator - this operator uses regular expressions as described in Get-Help about_Regular_Expressions (link is to MSDN).

Upvotes: 1

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