Question:
I want to select from a file all the lines which do not match a specific pattern;
I know I have to use -notMatch option of select-string but I just can’t figure it out how.
(I’m looking for something like GREP’s -v function)
Any example would be useful.
Thanks in advance.
Answer:
I think you still want to match
rather than notmatch
. To exclude the function return type or comments, you need a ‘negative look behind asserion’. Perhaps this will do what you require?
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$f = 'my_function' select-string test.txt -Pattern "(? |
The (?<!...)
part says don’t match if ‘…’ is found at this point in the source text.