PowerShell v2 RegEx Examples

There are countless examples of regex with PowerShell. (one of the best Ive seen:

PowerShell - Working With Regular Expressions (regex)

These are really mainly for me so I dont have to reinvent the wheel in a pinch. As the list grows hopefully it will help others.

• Match last 6 characters in string: "1234567890" -match "(.{6})$"
• Match file paths without having to escape slashes with double slashes: $_.fullname -replace [Regex]::Escape("C: est est"),
• Match IPv4 address: "255.255.255.255" -match "([0-2][0-9][0-9]).([0-2][0-9][0-9]).([0-2][0-9][0-9]).([0-2][0-9][0-9])"
• Match spaces or $null values: $_ -match "s+|^$"
• MAC address: ^([0-9A-F]{2}[:-]){5}([0-9A-F]{2})$

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