Regular expression matching in PowerShell

Question

Is there an elegant one-liner for doing the following?

$myMatch = \"^abc(.*)\"
$foo -match $myMatch
$myVar = $matches[1]

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Answer 1

I use something like the following pretty often:

([regex]"^abc(.*)").match($foo).groups[1].value

It's not very PowerShell-y, or at least not very PowerShell V2-y (we're falling back onto the .NET class)... but it's pretty compact.