[ACCEPTED]-Powershell - How to search for Whole Words (or) Exact Matches-powershell

Accepted answer

Score: 12

Try select-string -pattern "\.rtop\b".

You need to escape the dot, or it will 3 match any character; and the \b word boundary 2 anchor ensures that the word does not continue 1 after rtop.

Score: 5

You can use the -simplematch option of select-string 1 to do a literal match instead of regex.

Source: stackoverflow.com

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