Back tick not working as escape character

[58sniper]

So I'm importing some data from CSV and trying to do some cool stuff. But I'm noticing the back tick (`) is not properly escaping special characters.

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?

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[58sniper]

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

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