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clarified the example for -Regex
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14 changes: 12 additions & 2 deletions reference/5.1/Microsoft.PowerShell.Core/About/about_Switch.md
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---
ms.date: 2017-12-01
ms.date: 2017-12-06
schema: 2.0.0
locale: en-us
keywords: powershell,cmdlet
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| |condition. Wildcard and Exact are ignored. Also, if the |
| |match clause is not a string, this parameter is ignored. |

In this example, there is no matching case so there is no output.

```powershell
Example:
PS> switch ("fourteen")
{
1 {"It is one."; Break}
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3 {"Three again."; Break}
"fo*" {"That's too many."}
}
```

For the word "fourteen" to match a case you must use the **-Wildcard** or
**-Regex** parameter.

```powershell
PS> switch -Regex ("fourteen")
{
1 {"It is one."; Break}
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3 {"Three again."; Break}
"fo*" {"That's too many."}
}
```

Result:

```Output
That's too many.
```

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