notepad ++ regex get all powershell variables

The idea is that you have a folder full of scripts and you would like to remove all of the aliases that are in all of the scripts and replace those aliases with the actual command names. Now we arrive at the third blog in the series in which I extend the concept of parsing text to parsing all of the Windows PowerShell scripts that are contained in a folder. In that post I discussed using the Windows PowerShell tokenizer to parse a section of text and return all of the Windows PowerShell commands from that text. The following day, I continued this series with my second post. In the first part of this series of blogs, I talked about creating a hash table that contained all of the aliases and their associated definitions. By the way, if you have not taken the survey, it is available on Jeffery’s blog. It is not a scientific survey, but the results are interesting.

The survey says that the Windows PowerShell ISE is the most frequently used script editor by Scripting Games participants. Jeffery Hicks, Microsoft PowerShell MVP, author, trainer, blogger, and 2011 Scripting Games judge has been running a one question survey about what script editor Scripting Games participants have been using. Interestingly enough, this should be a useful project. This is part three of my project to create a Windows PowerShell ISE add-on to replace aliases in a script with the actual Windows PowerShell cmdlet names. I will be speaking at SQL Rally, and the Scripting Wife will be there with me as well. We will take a weeklong break from the games following our expert commentators in honor of SQL Rally in Orlando, Florida. Yep, the competition part of the games is over, but we still have a week’s worth of guest blogs by our expert commentators, and two week’s worth of wrap up by me.

With the final scripts uploaded for the 2011 Scripting Games, the judges are hard at work finishing the grading in preparation for revealing the final scores and declaring winners, which will take place on Monday April 25, 2011. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Summary: Part three in the series about replacing Windows PowerShell aliases with full cmdlet names uses a regular expression pattern and the tokenizer.

Notepad ++ regex get all powershell variables