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 could try this:

Get-Content foo.txt | foreach { some-othercommand [regex]::match($_,'^(//[^#]*)').value }