Regex html, getting input value

Question

I have this piece of pwershell code, i can't make this work, i already saw several links about this but nothing works. I'm on an Ubuntu machine

I need to get the form token from that url (http://h.com/heya/login):

$result = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://hey.com/heya/login' -SessionVariable tok
$found = $result -match 'name="token" value="(.*?)"'
$token = $matches[1]

Write-Host $token # this is empty

Update: The code works on powershell console, but for me didn't worked with the command powershell -File file.ps1, so i thought the code was wrong. After i updated it worked like were supose

Answer 1

Recommendation: Upgrade to the latest PowerShell Alpha. It looks like you're running an old version, based upon the comments on this answer.

It works fine for me on Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

PS C:\Users\TrevorSullivan> $result = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://migueldvl.com/heya/login' -SessionVariable tok
$found = $result -match 'name="token" value="(.*?)"'
$token = $matches[1]

Write-Host $token # this is empty
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PS C:\Users\TrevorSullivan> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value                                                                                             
----                           -----                                                                                             
PSVersion                      5.1.14393.206                                                                                     
PSEdition                      Desktop                                                                                           
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                           
BuildVersion                   10.0.14393.206                                                                                    
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000                                                                                   
WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                                               
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                               
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1                                                                                           

EDIT: To accommodate the updated question, I also tested this on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, under a Docker environment. It seems to work there, too.

PS /> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      6.0.0-alpha
PSEdition                      Core
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   3.0.0.0
GitCommitId                    v6.0.0-alpha.12
CLRVersion
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

It also works perfectly fine when I use the -File parameter on the PowerShell binary. Ignore the odd output -- that's a fault of the PowerShell host, I believe.