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When I select a string from a file it is showing several strings, ex
$strings|select-string -pattern macro will display
macro
gamacro
tamacro
I am looking equivalent command of grep -w which will only grep macro, is it possible?
Thanks in advance
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Thanks it is working but if it is not working if I have "-"
ta-macro
If I search $strings|select-string -pattern '\bmacro\b' it is searching
"-" is not a word break character. "-w" specifies only word breaks.
This method seems to work. Hopefully it helps.
($strings -notmatch "[^\s\\]macro") -notmatch "macro[^\s\\]"
$strings -replace '-','_' | select-string \bmacro\b
