{"id":228,"date":"2019-05-30T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T01:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/?post_type=faq&p=228"},"modified":"2019-05-30T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T01:25:20","slug":"regular-expression","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/faq\/regular-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check WMI Plus uses regular expressions for many of its arguments\/parameters. These are very powerful “search strings”. If the –help output says that an argument uses regular expressions then you have a very powerful tool for finding exactly what you want.<\/p>\n

Check WMI Plus uses Perl Regular Expressions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regular expressions can be used to search for one very precise item and even multiple very precise items in a single definition.<\/p>\n

Common\/Basic regular expression characters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
.<\/td>\nAny character<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*<\/td>\nNone or more characters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
+<\/td>\nOne or more characters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
|<\/td>\nUsed for OR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[]<\/td>\nUsed for a group of characters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
^<\/td>\nUsed to mark the start of a string<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
^<\/td>\nUsed to mark the end of a string<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There are many more regular expression characters available, read about them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below are some examples:
\ncheck_wmi_plus.pl -H win0 -u administrator -p parallel12 -m checkdrivesize --noishowusage -a REGEX<\/code>
\nwhere REGEX is in the table below<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
REGEX<\/strong><\/td>\nDescription<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
.<\/td>\nMatches all drives, since . matches any single character, and all drives have at least one character<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
^C<\/td>\nMatches any drives starting with “C”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing “C”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C$<\/td>\nMatches any drives ending in “C”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing “C”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C|D<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing “C” or “D”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing “C”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C*<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing no “C” or more<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C+<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing at least one “C”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C|D<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing “C” or “D”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[CD]<\/td>\nMatches any drives containing “C” or “D”. This seems similar to above, and it is, but it can be used in the place of a single character eg DATA[123] would match DATA1 or DATA2 or DATA3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","faq_groups":[10],"class_list":["post-228","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq-group-examples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_groups?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}