Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group 1(\s*)

\s*a Unicode whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 2(Remove-Item -Force $\$Path \+ '\*' \+ \$Suffix$;)

Remove-Item -Force the literal text Remove-Item -Force (case sensitive)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

\$the literal $ (36₁₀ / 44₈ / 24₁₆)

Path the literal text Path (case sensitive)

\+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

'the literal text '

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

' the literal text '

\+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\$the literal $ (36₁₀ / 44₈ / 24₁₆)

Suffixthe literal text Suffix (case sensitive)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

^(\s*)(Remove-Item -Force \(\$Path \+ '\*' \+ \$Suffix\);)

New

Remove-Item -Force ($Path + '*' + $Suffix); 
  Remove-Item -Force ($Path + '*' + $Suffix); 
    Remove-Item -Force ($Path + '*' + $Suffix);

\1#\2

Remove-Item -Force ($Path + '*' + $Suffix); 
  Remove-Item -Force ($Path + '*' + $Suffix); 
    Remove-Item -Force ($Path + '*' + $Suffix);