Use Back References with -Replace

by Dec 17, 2010

If you need to replace text with some other text and keep a reference to the original text, you can use the backreferenceback reference placeholder $0:

'The problem was described in KB123456. Look it up.' replace 'KB\d{6}', 'KB99999 (was: $0)'

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