find word in a text file and return boolean

Question

_{Friday, January 24, 2014 6:55 PM}

Hi,

How do I search for a "keyword" in a text file, if keyword found i just want to have returned $true, and if not found return $false. Please suggest me anything other than .contains method because that's complaining and giving error when I am running my ps scripts from a scheduler called Visualcron

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_{Friday, January 24, 2014 7:03 PM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

Select-String can do that for you:

$file = '.\someFile.txt'
$word = 'Xylophone'

$found = Select-String -Path $file -Pattern $word -SimpleMatch -Quiet

$found will be a boolean value.

_{Monday, January 27, 2014 2:56 AM | 1 vote}

Hi,

Please also try below code:

$content = get-content e:\test.txt

$word = "test"

If($content -match $word)

{$true}

else

{$false}

Regards,

Yan Li

Regards, Yan Li