Powershell escape character ` (backtick) not escaping string

Question

I'm having trouble adding a new line into a string in powershell:

Get-ChildItem "C:\Users\matt\Desktop\CShell Install" |foreach {'<Component Id="'+$_.name+'" Guid="' +[guid]::NewGuid() + '">`r`n<File Id="'+$_.name+'" Source="$(var.CShell.TargetPath)"></File></Component>'}

As you can see I want a newline to occur at

``r`n

instead they are printed literally.

Any pointers?

Answer 1

Do not use Single Quote, where you want PowerShell to honor backticks (or any other characters that you need PowerShell to interpret).

"FirstLine`r`nSecondLine" prints
FirstLine
SecondLine

'"FirstLine`r`nSecondLine"' prints
"FirstLine`r`nSecondLine"