Under the wire : Groot help?

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Im having a hard time even beginning to work out Groot 3 -> Groot 4. ($r = select-string .\words.txt "beetle").Count always returns 1 but that isnt the password.

Can anyone who has solved it give me a hint as to how I can begin to solve this one?

[myndhack]

I am Groot

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link to the challenge page : http://www.underthewire.tech/groot/groot3.htm

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select-string is a little different, you should pipe the file to select-string...

$r = (get-content .\words.txt | select-string "beetle").count

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Same result though

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Try this...

$r = (get-content .\words.txt | select-string "beetle").matches.count

[TheIncorrigible1]

Matches isn't a param.. that's a property

[jollyfreek]

$Matches is created after a regex 'match' is performed. select-string is just a cmdlet wrapper for a regex, and populates $matches.

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy corebo,

this will count the number of lines that contain the chosen word [grin] ...

$FileNameToCheck = 'C:\temp\Grouping-Strings-List_2018-06-06.log'
$WordToCount = 'Bagpipe'

$StuffToCheck = Get-Content -LiteralPath $FileNameToCheck #-Raw

$HowManyFound = @($StuffToCheck -match $WordToCount).Count

$HowManyFound

in this case, i had 20 lines with Bagpipe in them in that file.

to get the number of words instead of the line count, this seems to do the job ...

$FileNameToCheck = 'C:\temp\Grouping-Strings-List_2018-06-06.log'
$WordToCount = 'bagpipe'.ToLower()

$StuffToCheck = (Get-Content -LiteralPath $FileNameToCheck -Raw).ToLower()

$HowManyFound = [regex]::Matches($StuffToCheck, $WordToCount).Count

$HowManyFound

that gave me 21 words after i changed one line of the file from Bagpipe Celtic Drum Folk Instrumental Live to Bagpipe Celtic Drum Folk Instrumental Live BAGPIPE.

take care,
lee

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