Excellent!

Got it. That’s nice and succinct, thanks!

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yd1hzczs.aspx

Alternatively you could do the same thing in PowerShell that you did in the Python code:

$re = New-Object regex ’.+?’,Singleline

However, the other thing you’re going to run into with gc (Get-Content) is that, in PowerShell V1, Get-Content always splits the file into lines. To workaround this, do

$xml = [io.file]::ReadAllText((resolve-path $path)) -replace ‘(?s)…pattern….’,”
$xml | out-file -enc ascii

(We’re planning to fix this issue in the next release.)

-bruce

import clr
from System.Text.RegularExpressions import Regex, RegexOptions
xml = open(‘wordpress.xml’).read()
re = Regex(‘<wp:comment>.+?</wp:comment>’,RegexOptions.Singleline)
xml = re.Replace(xml,”)

Can you specify the regex option natively in PowerShell or would you need to construct a .NET regex object in similar fashion?

(And…why Singleline?)

PS (9) > ‘afoobfooc’ -replace ‘.+?’,”
abc

The PowerShell equvalent of the Python code would probably be something like:

$modified = (gc wordpress.xml) -replace ‘.+?’,”
$modified | out-file -encoding ascii wordpress.xml # save as ascii

If saving the file as unicode is acceptable, then the last line become
$modified > wordpress.xml

As an aside, PowerShell just uses .NET regular expressions. The syntax for these expressions is documented at:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1400241x.aspx

-bruce

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Bruce Payette [MSFT]
Principal Developer, Windows PowerShell
Microsoft Corporation.