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Powershell –replace method and my own frustration.

Summary: I added some code to my VMWare Infrastructure script for a new column of data to show a tooltip when clicked or hovered over.  Because I also have it export a csv file from this code, I use the –replace method to strip the html formatting.  Because of one section, more data than I wanted was being stripped.  Why?  Probably because I used this: .*> .  Resolution: Anyway here is the string I was using: 1: foreach { $ _ -replace(" < p style='font-weight:bold;color:orange' > ","") -replace(" < p style='font-weight:bold;color:red' > ","") -replace(" < a class='cluster' href= . /healthcheck . htm #.*> ","") -replace(" < /p > ","") -replace (" < /a > ","") -replace (" < a href=' #' class='tt'>","") -replace (" < span class='tooltip' > < span class='top&