Powershell Double Quotes In String

Sean Wheeler over 6 years ago.

Powershell double quotes in string When subscribing to the Description string from SCOM alert the string can contain Single and Double quotes. And the double quotes if there are characters that trigger processes such as which indicates a variable Powershell will process that and the output will be. Ive given examples here.

But what if the string is part of a larger script and you have various conditions that might set serverName. Content Get-Content CTemprebootlisttxt. It is a datatype that denotes the sequence of characters either as a literal constant or some kind of variable.

There are different variations to using the quotes we should use double quotes if we want to interpolate strings as we do below. Both the strings are. Message Hello first last The type of quotes you use around the string makes a difference.

Is populated by Orchestrator. If quote characters are required you can also double them in quoted strings. Finally if your PowerShell strings are quoted with double quotes then any double quote characters in the string must be escaped with the backtick.

String foo string foo 1. Num 5 I have num apples. Foo This string has Double quotes and single quotes.

PowerShell variable in string Putting a variable inside of a double-quoted string is called variable expansion. To replace double quotes I need to do some trick - use the variable. If you use a double quote however PowerShell reads every character in the string and looks for characters that can be substituted for a variable defined outside the string or are actually evaluated as powershell operations.