In PowerShell, you can expand variables within strings as shown below:
$myvar = "hello"
$myvar1 = "$myvar`world" #without the `, powershell would look for a variable called $myvarworld
Write-Host $myvar1 #prints helloworld
The problem I am having is with escaped characters like n
r etc, as shown below:
$myvar3 = "$myvar`albert"
Write-Host $myvar3 #prints hellolbert as `a is an alert
also the following doesnt work:
$myvar2 = "$myvar`frank" #doesnt work
Write-Host $myvar2 #prints hellorank.
Question: How do I combine the strings without worrying about escaped characters when I am using the automatic variable expansion featurie? Or do I have to do it only this way:
$myvar = "hello"
$myvar1 = "$myvar"+"world" #using +
Write-Host $myvar1
$myvar2 = "$myvar"+"frank" #using +
Page 3. Escaping Variable. Technically escaping means “cannot be stored in a register”. In C Large values (arrays, structs). Variables whose address is taken.
In computing and telecommunication, an escape character is a character that invokes an alternative interpretation on the following characters in a character sequence. An escape character is a particular case of metacharacters.
Bash escape character is defined by non-quoted backslash (\). It preserves the literal value of the character followed by this symbol. Normally, $ symbol is used in bash to represent any defined variable.
This way is not yet mentioned:
"$($myvar)frank"
And this:
"${myvar}frank"
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