Capture multiline, multi-group to Powershell variables

Question

Ideally, I would like to create an object from ipconfig that allows us to drilldown to each adapter\'s attributes like this: $ip.$lan.$mac for the lan adapter\'s mac address

Answer 1

Looking at the output of IPCONFIG /ALL, it looks like there are 3 different types of data being returned - the header section at the beginning and the an arbitrary number of sections for active and inactive adapters, each with a different format and set of data returned.

Here is a set of regular expressions that can be used to parse each one, and capture the values presented:

$Header_Regex = 
@'
(?m)Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : (.*)
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : (.*)

'@


$Active_Adapter_Regex  =
@'
(?m)(.+? adapter .+):

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : (.*)
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : (.*)
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : (.*) 
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : (.*)
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : ((?:.|\n)*)
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : (.*)
'@

$Inactive_Adapter_Regex = 
@'
(?m)(.+? adapter .+):

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : (.*)
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : (.*)
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : (.*)

'@

$Cmd_Output = (ipconfig /all | out-string) 

$header = 
if ($Cmd_Output -match $Header_Regex)
  {$matches}

$Inactive_Adapters = 
[regex]::Matches($Cmd_Output,$Inactive_Adapter_Regex) 

$Active_Adapters =
[regex]::Matches($Cmd_Output,$Active_Adapter_Regex) 

chew on that a bit, and let me know if that's making any sense.