Regular expressions are a great way of identifying and retrieving text patterns. Take a look at the next code fragment as it defines a RegEx engine that searches for HTML divs with a "post-summary" attribute, then reads the PowerShell team blog and returns all summaries from all posts in clear text:
$regex = [RegEx]'<div class="post-summary">(.*?)</div>'
$url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/'
$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$content = $wc.DownloadString($url)
$regex.Matches($content) | Foreach-Object { $_.Groups[1].Value }
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Oct 06 2010, 08:00 AM
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