What wrong about this PowerShell code with REGEX?

Question

hi can someone tell me what about this PowerShell code?

Someone made this code for me. Basically you use a regular expression to change a few lines in an html file. I think it must be filled with something for it to work. Can anyone correct it, as to make it work fine?

So, basically, I have an html file with some tags such as <title> and I want to select everything between tags and make a replace with a regex formula. but something wrong.

$Content = Get-Content -Path $Path "c:\Users\Castel\Videos\Captures" -Filter "*.html"
Set-Content -Path $Path -Value $Content

# Get each page as a HTML file/ assign to a variable
 #$Htmltext = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $MainUrl)# This is the link to the webpage
 #$HtmlPage.content

foreach($Line in $HtmlPage)
  {
$GetTitle = [regex] "$RegexForTitle"
$PageTitle = $FindTitle.Match($HtmlPage)
$PageTitle.Captures[0].Value
$Title = $PageTitle.Captures[0].Value -ireplace '<[^\>]*>,'$1'  #This regex selects everything between tags and make a replace:
  } #end foreach file

Answer 1

use -Raw

This is a solution !

$path = 'c:\Folder1\file1.html'
(Get-Content -Path $path -Raw) -replace '(<title>).*?(</title>)', '$1NEW is now there!$2' |
    Set-Content -Path $Path

Answer 2

Hi @Suzana Eree ,

Do you want to replace titles between <title> and </title> with the two characters '$1'? If so, you can simply do it like this

$path = 'D:\temp\file.html'  
$Content = Get-Content -Path $path   
$newContent =@()   
$RegexForTitle = '(?<=title>).*(?=</title>)'  
foreach($Line in $Content)  
{  
    $newContent += $Line -replace $RegexForTitle,'$1'  
}   
Set-Content -Path $Path -Value $newContent  

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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Answer 3

yes, works.

but, in other case, the replace of $1 does not working.

suppose I have the following Search and Replace with Regex:

FIND: (?<=title>).*(?=</title>)

REPLACE BY $1 OTHER TITLE

So, I want to change the title, the words between <title> .. </title> tags. Your $1 does not working, because it must not be seen, only OTHER TITLE

Basically, it is a REGEX FORMULA replaced with OTHER REGEX FORMULA, NOT Regex Formula replace with A Word.

Answer 4

In your last example there's no matching group. $1 would represent the 1st matching group. Add parentheses around the ".*".

"<title>Something goes here</title>" -replace  '(?<=title>)(.*?)</title>', '$1 NEW is now there!'

<title>Something goes here NEW is now there!

Answer 5

There's really no place to put the code in your original example because the example needs to be fixed so it at least makes sense.

However, taking your example as a small framework, this:

$Content = "<bogus></bogus>", "<title>Something goes here</title>","<TheEnd>END</TheEnd>"

foreach($Line in $Content){
    $Line -replace "<title>(.*?)</title>",'$1 NEW is now there!'  #This regex selects everything between tags and make a replace:
}

Or this:

$Content = "<bogus></bogus>", "<title>Something goes here</title>","<TheEnd>END</TheEnd>"

$GetTitle = [regex]"<title>(.*?)</title>"
foreach($Line in $Content){
    $Line -replace $GetTitle,'$1 NEW is now there!'  #This regex selects everything between tags and make a replace:
}

Or this:

$Content = "<bogus></bogus>", "<title>Something goes here</title>","<TheEnd>END</TheEnd>"

$GetTitle = [regex]"<title>(.*?)</title>"
foreach($Line in $Content){
    $GetTitle.Replace($Line, '$1 New is now there!')
}

Each produces:

<bogus></bogus>
Something goes here NEW is now there!
<TheEnd>END</TheEnd>