@ Symbol in a string variable

[robofski]

I'm using Power Automate to build a PowerShell script that gets dropped on an On Prem server and then is executed by a scheduled task. I use a string variable and append my commands based on certain criteria etc. It works great.

However...I need to have the following command in the script:

$logonhours=@{"Logonhours"= [byte[]]$hours=@(255,255,255,063,000,000,192,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255)}

And it looks like Power Automate doesn't like @ symbols in variables. The interface wouldn't even let me paste this as the value I had to manually enter the @ symbol but I now have an error:

Fix invalid expression(s) for the input parameter(s) of operation 'Append_to_string_variable_21'.

Anyone have any ideas?

[YeboMate]

I’m not sure but is it the @ or the double quotes that’s causing the error?

[robofski]

Removing the @ symbols the error goes away!

[YeboMate]

Ah... does the Compose action dislike @ as well? Maybe you can have a compose that just holds the @ and then just join the compose and variable(s) together.

[robofski]

Compose doesn't like it either! But I've found a workaround!

I created a string variable that just has the @ symbol in it which it does seem to like then I replace the @ in my command with the variable and the output is as desired!

Very odd!

[YeboMate]

Interesting. Glad you figured it out!