I need assistance with Powershell if/then syntax

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We have a library of 3500 documents for which we're building metadata. About 1/3 of the documents have BC in the title and I want to flag these. Right now, here's what I have and it works fine:

$htmPath = "c:\ht"
$srcfiles = Get-ChildItem $htmPath -filter "*.htm*"
ForEach ($doc in $srcfiles)
{
    $s = $doc.Fullname
    if($s.contains("BC")) { $bcflag = 1 } else {$bcflag = 0}
    Write-Host "File: " $doc.Fullname "  BC Flag: " $bcflag
}

It's just come to my attention that there may be some documents with bc in the title, so I need to add an OR to my condition test. I've been unsuccessful with the word OR...errors out with bad method calls, | as a symbol for or...thinks I'm trying to pipe something, and for some reason, I can't include a regex. I can get it to work if I add a duplicate if statement with bc as a condition, but there has to be a way to provide a list of options rather than a series of statements each looking for a single value.

What is the proper syntax to

a.) Provide a list of conditions to test and/or

b.) use a regex in the above statement

Stanley De Boer · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-05 17:12:21Z

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The or operator in Powershell is -or so you probably want

if($s.contains("BC") -or $s.contains("bc")) { $bcflag = 1 } else {$bcflag = 0}

answered Feb 5, 2013 at 17:12

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CB. · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-05 17:24:37Z

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using regex:

if($s -match 'bc')

or just

if($doc.fullname -match 'bc')

default regex isn't case-sensitive, the will match "BC" or "bc".

edited Feb 5, 2013 at 17:24

answered Feb 5, 2013 at 17:17

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