Aesthetically Pleasing String Replace Statement

Question

I currently have code that looks like this:

$onestr = $twostr -replace "one","two" -replace "uno","dos"

I would like to format it like this:

$onestr = $twostr -replace "one","two" 
                  -replace "uno","dos"

such that the replace statements stack on top of each other.

I could use backtic as the line continuation character, but other stackoverflow questions cover why that is not a good idea.

I tried code that looks like this:

$onestr = ($twostr -replace "one","two" 
                   -replace "uno","dos"
          )

But I got an error that the paren is not matched.

My actual code has several replace statements (not just two).

Answer 1

If you have a lot of replacements, what about a different approach which allows much more scope for the aligning of the replacement pairs nicely, without affecting the block of replace code.

$onestr = 'one thing uno thing'


$Pairs = @{ 
    'one' = 'two'
    'uno' = 'dos'
}

$Pairs.GetEnumerator() | ForEach-Object { 
    $onestr = $onestr -replace $_.Name, $_.Value
}

$onestr