-Replace v .Replace 1

[mrmovie]

Being new to powershell this was doing me in.
I was using:

$strResult = $strResult -Replace($strX, $strY)

this was working most of the time, however if $strX started with a 'funny' char ^ or # (i think) this replace function was no longer working, i presume it was thinking $strX was a regexp or something like that?

I have found that:

$strResult = $strResult.Replace($strX, $strY)

gives me the result i want

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