Scenario:
Once in while, a message enters a specific transactional message queue on an application server.
If this message contains ‘xxx’, I have to delete it before it gets picked up and ‘poisons’ the treating process.
So far, I’ve got this:
[pre]
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Messaging")
$queuePath = “.\private$\soapoutbound”
$queue = New-Object System.Messaging.MessageQueue $queuePath
foreach ($message in $queue.GetAllMessages()){
Write-Host (New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding).GetString($message.BodyStream.ToArray())
}
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But it seems that I cannot use the -contains clause on this resulting array (will always return false).
Can anyone point me in the direction of a more example-based learning resource for this one?
Many thanks!
Where are you trying to use contains, can you pass little more details .
Apologies indeed… 
I will then try to concatenate the bodystream of ‘every’ message in the queue into one big String (usually only a few messages per minute max),
and use the -contain clause on that big String(UTF8Encoding). Still trying to find out how to do that.
If that comes out True, then I go looking for a way to delete the first message in the queue (because that one will be the offending one).
Anyway, that’s my ‘battle plan’.
The -contains comparison operator validates if a term is in an array returning a boolean result:
$colors = 'red','white','blue'
$colors -contains 'red' #true
$colors -contains 'darkred' #false, does not support wildcard search
The -like comparison operator validates a wild card term is found in a string retuning a boolean result
$searchTerm = '*xxx*'
'Our programming selection contains xxx material' -like $searchTerm #true