Is there a shorter way to pull groups out of a Powershell regex?

Question

In PowerShell I find myself doing this kind of thing over and over again for matches:

some-command | select-string \'^(//[^#]*)\' |
     %{some-other-command         


        

Answer 1

You can use the -match operator to reformulate your command as:

some-command | Foreach-Object { if($_ -match '^(//[^#]*)') { some-other-command $($matches[1])}}