Find all mail address in a file using regex
powershell, regex
Solution
`-match` returns strings with the content, so it works better with a string-array where it can find a match per line. What you want is a "global" search I believe it's called. In PowerShell you can do that using `Select-String` with the `-AllMatches` parameter.
Try the following:
(Select-String -InputObject $myString -Pattern '\w+@\w+\.\w+' -AllMatches).Matches
Example:
$myString = @"
user@domain.no hhaksda user@domain.com
dsajklg user@domain.net
"@
PS > (Select-String -InputObject $myString -Pattern '\w+@\w+\.\w+' -AllMatches).Matches | ft * -AutoSize
Groups Success Captures Index Length Value
------ ------- -------- ----- ------ -----
{user@domain.no} True {user@domain.no} 0 14 user@domain.no
{user@domain.com} True {user@domain.com} 23 15 user@domain.com
{user@domain.net} True {user@domain.net} 48 15 user@domain.net
Problem
I need to read with powershell a lot of files and getting all email address. I tried this solution ``` $myString -match '\w+@\w+\.\w+' ``` The problem is that the variable `$matches` contains only the first match. Am I missing something?