How to find if Powershell Array Contain part of another Array

Question

I have 2 Arrays

$Array1 = Get-Disabledusers SIDS
$Array2 =  %Unnecessarytext(SIDS).VHDX

I need to compare Array1 and Array2 and output only the things in Array2 that contain Array1. Thing is, when I compare both objects, it returns not equal because they don't match exactly.

How do I get it to output the items in Array2 that contain the matching Disabled Users SIDS? Should I run a foreach loop and compare a part of the Array?

I found this: How to find if Powershell Array Contains Object of Another Array

However this doesn't help as it will return not equal.

Clarified Question:

There is a folder in which there are VHDXs. The VHDXs are named based on a user's SID. However, there is a bunch if unnecessary text before and after the SIDs.

In Array1, I run:

Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $false} | FT SID

In order to retrieve a list of disabled users and filter out their SIDs.

In Array2, I list the names of the files in the VHDX folder which look like this: text SID text. I want to compare both and return which files in the VHDX folders contain the SIDS of the disabled users.

Are the arrays just value SIDs or are those objects with more properties? Also what have you tried? — Santiago Squarzon, Sep 28 '22 at 00:32
`#Get A list of Disabled Users SID's and store them in an array $DisabledSIDS = Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $false} | FT SID #Get a list of current VHDXS and store them in an array $VHDXNames = (Get-ChildItem -Path Path | FT Name)` I've tried outputting them all to text files then re-importing while getting rid of the extra values. But was told that that was war crime level of spaghetti code. I can't remember the previous other tries that I've done. Will update if I remember — PolloTheChicken, Sep 28 '22 at 00:37
So you have folders which's name are SIDs ? If so, can you edit your question adding this information as well as the code you've tried to it so other readers can see it ? It would be nice to understand if the names of the folder are following the naming convention of an actual SID too — Santiago Squarzon, Sep 28 '22 at 00:55
Ok, sorry if my question is vague. I'll update it. There is a folder in which there are VHDXs. The VHDXs are named based on a user's SID. However, there is a bunch if unecessary text before and after the SIDs. in Array1, I run `Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $false} | FT SID` in order to retrieve a list of disabled users and filter out their SIDs. In Array2, I list the names of the files in the VHDX folder which look like this: *text* SID *text*. I want to compare both and return which files in the VHDX folders contain the SIDS of the disabled users. — PolloTheChicken, Sep 28 '22 at 01:01

Santiago Squarzon · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-28T01:33:28.753

You can do it this way, first get the list of SID values from all disabled users and store them in a variable, then since the files or folders (unclear on this) are not exact SIDs, you will need to first check if they contain a valid SID, this can be accomplished using a regular expression and the -match operator and if they do, then we can use the automatic variable $Matches to check if the SID is -in the array of SIDs of Disabled Users, if yes, we can output that file or folder and store it in $result:

$re = 'S-1-[0-59]-\d{2}-\d{8,10}-\d{8,10}-\d{8,10}-[1-9]\d{2,3}'
$sids = (Get-ADUser -Filter "Enabled -eq '$false'").SID.Value
$result = foreach($item in Get-ChildItem -Path path\to\something) {
    if($item.Name -match $re) {
        if($Matches[0] -in $sids) {
            $item
        }
    }
}

$result # => has all the files or folders existing in `$sids`

The regex used was taken from this answer and only required to change the last \d{3} for \d{2,3} to match any valid SID.

How to find if Powershell Array Contain part of another Array

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