Get contents between preceding delimeters and add to new line
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3 years ago Anonymous 2321

I’m trying to work out how to do a search and replace to this:

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So to add in a new line the text “set_attribute…” plus the contents of the preceding square brackets each time eg. in this case that “] <START_SETUP>” is found.

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3 years ago PeterVandivier

Assuming your original file is named “foo.txt”, you can regex match for each row and append your additional row as below.

tio

See about_Regular_Expressions for further information on the $matches automatic variable and regex matching in powershell generally.

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