PowerShell: Quote String

Ways to Quote String

String is a sequence of characters. There are 3 syntax to write string literals.

• 'singe quoted string'.
• Double Quoted String
• Here-String

Single Quoted, Literal String

• Character sequence between APOSTROPHE 'single quote' is literal string.
• Can contain multiple lines.
• Backslash is literal, GRAVE ACCENT ` also literal.

$x = 'some
thing'

echo $x

Include a Single Quote

To include a single quote inside single quoted string, use two single quotes.

# double single quote becomes a single quote
$x = 'don''t'
$x -eq "don't"

# backslash is literal, GRAVE ACCENT also literal
$x = 'a\n`nb'

Double Quoted String (Expandable String)

• PowerShell: Double Quoted String, String Expansion

Here-String

• PowerShell: Here-String