How to get the captured groups from Select-String?

Have a look at the following

$a = "http://192.168.3.114:8080/compierews/" | Select-String -Pattern '^http://(.*):8080/(.*)/$' 

$a is now a MatchInfo ($a.gettype()) it contain a Matches property.

PS ps:\> $a.Matches
Groups   : {http://192.168.3.114:8080/compierews/, 192.168.3.114, compierews}
Success  : True
Captures : {http://192.168.3.114:8080/compierews/}
Index    : 0
Length   : 37
Value    : http://192.168.3.114:8080/compierews/

in the groups member you'll find what you are looking for so you can write :

"http://192.168.3.114:8080/compierews/" | Select-String -Pattern '^http://(.*):8080/(.*)/$'  | % {"IP is $($_.matches.groups[1]) and path is $($_.matches.groups[2])"}

IP is 192.168.3.114 and path is compierews

This worked for my situation.

Using the file: test.txt

// autogenerated by script
char VERSION[21] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST";
char NUMBER[16] = "123456789012345";

Get the NUMBER and VERSION from the file.

PS C:\> Select-String -Path test.txt -Pattern 'VERSION\[\d+\]\s=\s\"(.*)\"' | %{$_.Matches.Groups[
1].value}

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST

PS C:\> Select-String -Path test.txt -Pattern 'NUMBER\[\d+\]\s=\s\"(.*)\"' | %{$_.Matches.Groups[1
].value}

123456789012345

According to the powershell docs on Regular Expressions > Groups, Captures, and Substitutions:

When using the -match operator, powershell will create an automatic variable named $Matches

PS> "The last logged on user was CONTOSO\jsmith" -match "(.+was )(.+)"

The value returned from this expression is just true|false, but PS will add the $Matches hashtable

So if you output $Matches, you'll get all capture groups:

PS> $Matches

Name     Value
----     -----
2        CONTOSO\jsmith
1        The last logged on user was
0        The last logged on user was CONTOSO\jsmith

And you can access each capture group individually with dot notation like this:

PS> "The last logged on user was CONTOSO\jsmith" -match "(.+was )(.+)"
PS> $Matches.2
CONTOSO\jsmith

Additional Resources:

• To Get Multiple Matches, see How to capture multiple regex matches
• To Pass Options/Flags, see Pass regex options to PowerShell [regex] type