Powershell - how to find all the strings that match the regex from a folder's .cs files?

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I want to find all the string (within the double quote) from all the .cs class files except from the comments (double slash). This is what i have came up so far, and it doesn't ignore the comments line, and it doesn't just return the string itself (content within the double quote). Can someone please help me improve this Powershell script? Thank you. I am running Win7

gci -path C:\Working\MyFolder -Include *.cs -Exclude *Designer.cs, *AssemblyInfo.cs -Recurse |
select-string -pattern '\"[^\"]*\"'  | export-csv oput.csv

It looks like you're trying to extract all strings from your sources. Note that it isn't that easy (multiline, verbatim strings, "strings" in comments, etc.). You might want to checkout [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/965667/21567). — Christian.K, Jun 06 '14 at 06:26

JPBlanc · Answer 1 · 2014-06-06T07:01:52.267

can you try this :

select-string -pattern '(?<!([/]{2}.*))\".*\"'

using Positive and Negative Lookbehind it can be translate like this :

\".*\" looks for any character between double quotes

(?<!([/]{2}.*)) put before means : not preceded by [/]{2}.* (two / followed by any characters)

If you want to retreive the strings themselves :

gci -path C:\Working\MyFolder -Include *.cs -Exclude *Designer.cs, *AssemblyInfo.cs -Recurse |get-content | % {if ($_ -match '(?<!([/]{2}.*))\"(.*)\"'){$matches[0]}}

Powershell - how to find all the strings that match the regex from a folder's .cs files?

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