.net/powershell regex single match

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I have spent days trying to work this out. Managed to get text to be captured but I need only one of the lines. I have tried various ways but always get all matches returned to me.

This line of text appears 3 times

<![LOG[Property SerialNumber is now = serial]LOG]!>

using the Regex

 (?<=Property\sSerialNumber\sis\snow\s\=\s)[^<]+(?=]LOG]!>)

I get three matches of the word serial. I only need 1.

Where am i going wrong?

Some more context would be helpful. Why do you only want to match one of them? Are you checking for the presence of a string? Is your line of text repeated 3 times on separate lines or is it all together on one line? — Aaron Jensen
– Aaron Jensen, Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 1:24

Joey · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-11 05:59:05Z

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If that exact line appears three times, then [Regex]::Matches will return all three of them, of course.

You can use [Regex]::Match if you're only interested in the first.

answered Jun 11, 2012 at 5:59

Joey

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