Sorry about that... definitely hard to read! Apparently the copy and paste of the code examples added lines after I submitted the post. I'll try to briefly summarize below with few less examples, and edit the post above.
Example #1
$StringArray = @("Thing1","Thing2","Thing3","Thing4","Thing5","Thing6","Thing7","Thing8")
$ContainsArray = @("Thing2","Thing4","Thing6","Thing8")
$stringarray | where-object {$ContainsArray -contains $_}
$stringarray | where-object {$ContainsArray -notcontains $_}
The first where-object will return only the items contained in the ContainsArray, while the second returns the inverse. Both would be expected behavior. However, assuming that you did not have exact matches and instead wanted to use wildcards,
is there a way to use NOTLIKE or NOTMATCH to basically return every object in a collection that does not exist within a set of wildcards?
Example #2
$StringArray = @("Red-Thing1","Blue-Thing2","Orange-Thing3","Red-Thing4","Blue-Thing5","Orange-Thing6","Red-Thing7","Blue-Thing8")
Is there a way to use NOTLIKE or NOTMATCH with a Where-Object statement similar to the ones above and return all of the objects that do not mactch either "Red*" or "Blue*" ? From the testing I've done, NOTLIKE and NOTMATCH don't seeem to work
well with an array of matches. I can get either "not red" or "not blue", but not both at the same time. Other options are to iterate through the collection and match each object against each other. It would seem like the direct
pipeline would be faster if it was possible. It seems like I might just be missing something, so I wanted to throw it out to the community for input.
$MatchArray = @("Red","Blue")
$LikeArray = @("Red*","Blue*")
$stringarray | where-object {$_ -match $MatchArray}
$stringarray | where-object {$_ -notmatch $MatchArray}
$stringarray | where-object {$_ -like $LikeArray}
$stringarray | where-object {$_ -notlike $LikeArray}
$stringarray | where-object {$_ -contains "Orange-Thing3"}
$stringarray | where-object {$_ -match "Blue"}
$stringarray | where-object {$_ -like "Red*"}
Any suggestions?
