PowerShell - Select tags between comments

Question

A simple example. I have this lines on 2 different html files, on Folder1 and Folder2. I want to parse (copy) some line from one folder to another, with REGEX, from the tag to tag.

The problem is that are a lots of and in the file, so I framed between the comments ( and ) the exact tags that I want to parse.




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I love powershell because is hard to understand 


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THE PROBLEM: How can I modify this PoweShell Code, as to select (with regex) only those and tags that are framed between the comments ( and )

$sourceFiles = Get-ChildItem 'c:\Folder1'
$destinationFolder = 'c:\Folder2'

foreach ($file in $sourceFiles) {

$sourceContent = Get-Content $file.FullName -Raw
$contentToInsert = [regex]::match($sourceContent,"(?ms)(.+)").value
$destinationContent = Get-Content $destinationFolder\$($file.Name) -Raw
$destinationContent = $destinationContent -replace '(?ms)(.+))',$contentToInsert

Set-Content -Path $destinationFolder\$($file.Name) -Value $destinationContent -Encoding UTF8

} #end foreach file

Accepted Answer

THE SOLUTION. It was all about a matter of REGEX, I had select all tags that also contains tags, so as to parse only their content

$sourceFiles = Get-ChildItem 'c:\Folder1'  
$destinationFolder = 'c:\Folder2'

foreach ($file in $sourceFiles) {

$sourceContent = Get-Content $file.FullName -Raw
$contentToInsert = [regex]::match($sourceContent,"(\s*)[\s\S]+(\s*)").value
$destinationContent = Get-Content $destinationFolder\$($file.Name) -Raw
$destinationContent = $destinationContent -replace '(\s*)[\s\S]+(\s*)',$contentToInsert

Set-Content -Path $destinationFolder\$($file.Name) -Value $destinationContent -Encoding UTF8

} #end foreach file

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