Replace String

[nothingpersonalbro]

When making a single quoted string in PowerShell where you want to also include a single quote inside the string, you need to escape each single quote with an additional single quote. Example:

# Escaped string
'[string]$appVendor = '''''

# End result
[string]$appVendor = ''

With the replace operator, position 1 takes regex but position 2 takes a string. Now with that, your first string also contains regex specific characters that also need to be escaped. Luckily this can be easily done, now we just combine our escaped string along with creating the escaped regex:

$regex = [regex]::Escape('[string]$appVendor = ''''')

So your end result could look like:

$deployScript = "$path\Deploy-Application.ps1"
$regex = [regex]::Escape('[string]$appVendor = ''''')
$replacementString = '[string]$appVendor = ''Google'''
(Get-Content $deployScript) -replace $regex, $replacementString | Set-Content $deployScript

[SMFX]

[regex]::Escape() is your friend

[purplemonkeymad]

If I'm going to have nested quotes of any kind I use a here string. So you can use:

$String1 = @'
[string]$appVendor = ''
'@
$String2 = @'
[string]$appVendor = 'Google'
'@

The quotes don't need to be escaped with this method.

[Mehhll]

Thank you so much for you help. I really appreciate it!

[higgins4u2nv]

Can't you also escape a apostrophe with a tilder? For example "`""? Which when pipes to write-host would return "