INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS

Member Login

Come Join Us!

Are you a
Computer / IT professional?
Join Tek-Tips now!

Talk With Other Members
Be Notified Of Responses
To Your Posts
Keyword Search
One-Click Access To Your
Favorite Forums
Automated Signatures
On Your Posts
Best Of All, It's Free!

*Tek-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

LINK TO THIS FORUM!

Tek-Tips LinkedIn^® Group

Join our
LinkedIn^® Group!

Hook up with past and present colleagues and classmates quickly.

Partner With Us!

"Best Of Breed" Forums Add Stickiness To Your Site

(Download This Button Today!)

Feedback

"...Many thanks to you for putting it together and to the forum members for taking the time to post their replies and give their time to help others. Their isn't another site that can touch it..."

More...

Geography

Where in the world do Tek-Tips members come from?

Click Here To Find Out!

Tek-Tips Shirts!

Get your
Tek-Tips Forums
SWAG here!

Home > Forums > Programmers > Languages > PowerShell (Microsoft) Forum

Back tick not working as escape character

CODE --> PowerShell

ForEach ($user in $users){
    $username = $user.FirstName+"."+$user.LastName
    $upn = $username+"@mydomain.com"
    $state = $user.St
    $party = $user.Party
    $firstname = $user.FirstName
    $lastname = $user.LastName
    $display = "Gov. $FirstName $LastName `[$Party-$State`]"
    write-host $username $upn $display
}

I end up with the trailing "]" at the beginning of the line (instead of the first character), except on the last line:

I have tracked the problem down to the $display= line. The data in the other variables is fine. It doesn't matter whether I use [], (), <>, or {}, I get the same results. It's not escaping those characters. If I remove those characters, things display correctly. I just can't seem to get around this.

Ideas?

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

58sniper (MIS)

23 Jan 10 19:00

Resolved - turns out some hidden line breaks in the csv were to blame. They didn't show in Notepad or Excel.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Tek-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Tek-Tips and talk with other members!

Back To Forum

Back To PowerShell (Microsoft)