How to find if Powershell Array Contain part of another Array-CodePudding

I have 2 Arrays

$Array1 = Get-Disabledusers SIDS
$Array2 =  %Unnecessarytext(SIDS).VHDX

I need to compare Array1 and Array2 and output only the things in Array2 that contain Array1. Thing is, when I compare both objects, it returns not equal because they don't match exactly.

How do I get it to output the items in Array2 that contain the matching Disabled Users SIDS? Should I run a foreach loop and compare a part of the Array?

I found this: How to find if Powershell Array Contains Object of Another Array

However this doesn't help as it will return not equal.

Clarified Question:

There is a folder in which there are VHDXs. The VHDXs are named based on a user's SID. However, there is a bunch if unnecessary text before and after the SIDs.

In Array1, I run:

Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $false} | FT SID

In order to retrieve a list of disabled users and filter out their SIDs.

In Array2, I list the names of the files in the VHDX folder which look like this: text SID text. I want to compare both and return which files in the VHDX folders contain the SIDS of the disabled users.

CodePudding user response：

You can do it this way, first get the list of SID values from all disabled users and store them in a variable, then since the files or folders (unclear on this) are not exact SIDs, you will need to first check if they contain a valid SID, this can be accomplished using a regular expression and the -match operator and if they do, then we can use the automatic variable $Matches to check if the SID is -in the array of SIDs of Disabled Users, if yes, we can output that file or folder and store it in $result:

$re = 'S-1-[0-59]-\d{2}-\d{8,10}-\d{8,10}-\d{8,10}-[1-9]\d{2,3}'
$sids = (Get-ADUser -Filter "Enabled -eq '$false'").SID.Value
$result = foreach($item in Get-ChildItem -Path path\to\something) {
    if($item.Name -match $re) {
        if($Matches[0] -in $sids) {
            $item
        }
    }
}

$result # => has all the files or folders existing in `$sids`

The regex used was taken from this answer and only required to change the last \d{3} for \d{2,3} to match any valid SID.