powershell select-string output to file - powershell

Question

I'm using powershell to locate an email address in a htm file and write it out to a text file.
I'm using select-string which finds the string OK, but writes the line number as well as the email address to the file.
All I want is the email address! It seems simple enough, but I can't crack it.
Here's my code:
$List_htm = Get-ChildItem -Filter *.htm
# Loop:
foreach ($htm in $List_htm)
{
# Locate recipient email address to send to:
# Regex pattern to match:
$pattern = '(^\W*.*#.*\.{1,}\w*$)'
$sel = select-string -list $htm -pattern $pattern | Select-Object Line
If ($Sel -eq $null)
{
write-host "FAILS - $htm does NOT contain $pattern"
}
Else
{
write-host "WORKS! $pattern `n$sel"
}
Write-host "end"
$EmailAddressee = $PDFFolder + "EmailAddressee.txt"
$sel | Out-File $EmailAddressee
}
However emailaddressee.txt looks like this:
Line
----
fred.bloggs#helpmeplease.com
All I want is a single line with the email address in:
fred.bloggs#helpmeplease.com
I could obviously further process this results file in powershell to get this, but I'm hoping someone can come up with a simple one stage result.
Thanks
Ian

Answer 1

Change the following line:
$sel = select-string -list $htm -pattern $pattern | Select-Object Line
To:
$sel = select-string -list $htm -pattern $pattern | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Line
That will ensure you write the property of the object rather than the textual representation of the object itself