Menu
I'm generating some simple HTML with PowerShell script, and I would like to escape strings used in result HTML (since they can contain some HTML-specific symbols).
For example:
$a = "something <somthing else>"; should be converted to the following:
"something <something else>" Is there any built-in function for that?
925
This means that if you hard code a Distinguished Name in PowerShell, and the string is enclosed in double quotes, any embedded double quotes must be escaped first by a backtick "`", and then by a backslash "\".
The escape character in Powershell is the "`" (backward apostrophe/grave). This can be used to escape quotes and also special characters (e.g., tab is `t).
When you use the –like operator, it supports three wildcards: “*” representing any number of any characters, “?” representing one character, and “[a-z]” for a list of characters. In addition, and this is not widely known, it supports the PowerShell escape character “`” that you can use to escape the wildcards.
There's a class that will do this in System.Web.
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web [System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlEncode('something <somthing else>') You can even go the other way:
[System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlDecode('something <something else>') If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
