A few days ago I posted a blog entry on simple regular expression replacements in VBScript. Let me show you a more complex example. It helps to have a purpose, even for demonstration so my need is to convert an html table to CSV output using regular expressions.
Tag: Regular Expressions
VBScript Simple Regex Replace
Last week I talked about using Regular Expressions in VBScript. In that post I focused on simple matching. However, you can also do string replacements using the regular expression object’s Replace() method. You specify a string to replace and its replacement text. I always test the expression to make sure the string exists before doing anything. Here’s a function I use for this task.
Parse HOSTS file with PowerShell
In a recent discussion in the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com, a member was trying to parse the HOSTS file on a number of desktops. This is a thankless but probably useful task that seems perfectly suited to a scripted solution. What we came up with was a way to turn entries in the HOSTS file to objects in PowerShell. Once we have an object then we can do all sorts of fun things with it. Here is an enhanced version of the original solution.
