Replacing multiple patterns using the replace function in a single command - can it be done? 1

[bazil2]

(Elementary user)

Hello Everyone,

I would like to replace certain 'forbidden' characters in the values of incoming XML files, namely single quote, double quote and ampersand (I presume < > are not possible due to their use in tags).

My command line looks like this and successfully replaces the & character:

(gc J:\path\to\my\file-in.xml) -replace '&', '&amp;' | Out-File J:\path\to\my\file-out.xml

Is it possible to add additional pairs to find in replace in the same line?

Many thanks

 

[blister911]

Can you do something like this?

(gc J:\path\to\my\file-in.xml) | Foreach-Object{$_ -replace '&', '&amp;' -replace 'something','nothing'} |Out-File J:\path\to\my\file-out.xml

 

[bazil2]

Completely brilliant!

Thank you so much, I understand, one can simply keep adding 'replace-pairs'.

 

[blister911]

I had to play with it a bit but this ended up working for me:

(gc J:\path\to\my\file-in.xml) | Foreach-Object{$_ -replace '&', '&amp;' -replace '"',"" -replace "'",''} |Out-File J:\path\to\my\file-out.xml



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[bazil2]

Yes this works perfectly!

Thanks