Question

I’m not sure if I’m even asking this question the right way or using the right notation, but here’s what I want to do.

I’ve done

$matches=$_|Select-String '(?smi)(\d*)\: (.*?)' -AllMatches | Foreach{$_.Matches}

Select-String returns type [MatchInfo], and the Foreach sucks out the Matches property of that type which is type [System.Array]

The $matches is an array of [System.Text.RegularExpressions.Group] elements for each match found, but what I want is a 2-D array of capture group value results.

That is, I want an array that contains elements like this:

$whatiwant=
   ($matches[0].Groups[1].Value,$matches[0].Groups[2].Value),
   ($matches[1].Groups[1].Value,$matches[1].Groups[2].Value),
   ($matches[2].Groups[1].Value,$matches[2].Groups[2].Value),
   ($matches[3].Groups[1].Value,$matches[3].Groups[2].Value),
   ...

How can I build this array?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I use this:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/New-PSObjectFromMatches-87d8ce87

It takes a regular expression argument, and produces custom PS Objects from the match groups of the input.