What you'll learn

Many IT Pros, at least those from the Windows world, think regular expressions are hard, or don't know why they might want to use them. Why bother learning and using them in your PowerShell scripting or even at a console prompt? In this course, Windows PowerShell and Regular Expressions, you will learn the key regular expression concepts and techniques that you can immediately put to use in PowerShell. You don't need to know and learn everything about regular expressions, just enough to get started. First, you will discover the basic syntax to create a regular expression pattern. Next, you will learn how to use these patterns in PowerShell. Finally, you will explore how to incorporate regular expressions into your PowerShell scripting. When you are finished with this course, you should have a better understanding of how regular expressions work, how to build them, and how to use them in PowerShell to make you not only a better scripter, but also a better IT professional.