[Question] About the best way to get information about the "matched" file about irregular HOT 1 CLOSED

@claudio-salvio thanks for asking this.

There are a couple of ways to get at the match information, and there's an easier way to handle files.

One of my favorites is -Extract, which will pull out each of the captures and make them into a PSObject.

Get-ChildItem -Filter *.ps1 -Recurse |  ?<PowerShell_Requires> -Extract

Using -IncludeInputObject will output the [IO.FileInfo] in the.InputObject property.

Get-ChildItem -Filter *.ps1 -Recurse | ?<PowerShell_Requires> -Extract -IncludeInputObject

Using -Include-Match will output the [Regex.Match] in the .Match property.

Get-ChildItem -Filter *.ps1 -Recurse | ?<PowerShell_Requires> -Extract -IncludeInputObject -IncludeMatch

And, for bonus points, Irregular augments matches in a number of ways. For instance, it adds a line and column

Get-ChildItem -Filter *.ps1 -Recurse |
    ?<PowerShell_Requires> -Extract -IncludeInputObject -IncludeMatch |
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty Match |
    Select-Object Line, Column

Please let me know if you have more questions.

from irregular.