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1

Is it possible to use a backtick to make my text readable in the following statement. My liline for the replace will be long.

.Replace(‘Host=“Detroit1”’,'Host="Log123#).Replace(‘Host=“Devnver12”’,‘Host=“Files132”’).Replace(‘Host=“Devnver12”’,‘Host=“Files132”’)

Is it possible to have a statement like this

$_.Replace(‘Host=“Detroit1”’,’ Host=“Log123#” ‘) `
.Replace(‘Host=“Devnver12”’,’ Host=“Files132” ‘)`
.Replace(‘Host=“Devnver12”’,’ Host=“Files132” ')

I I am getting the message below.

  • $_.Replace(‘Host=“Detroit1”’,’ Host=“Log123#” ') ’
  •                                                                            ~

Unexpected token ‘’

Thanks

2

It’s legal, but it is not legal to have a space between the closing parentheses ) and the period . that comes before the next method name.

3

You can also do this without backticks if you put the dot operator at the end of the line. That’s one of the freebie line continuation characters that PowerShell gives you, because it knows that it’s not a complete expression without something to the right of the dot:

$string = 'I am a string'

$string.Replace('string', 'frog').
        Replace('am', 'found')
4

Also, you can break on the parens as if they were a block:

"Hello, there!".
Replace(
    "there",
    "Mikhael"
)
5

And since you are chaining the replaces, seems like a good opportunity to loop over sets of replacement terms defined in a hash table. It’ll be a lot easier to read and troubleshoot as the number of your replacement terms increases.

$r = @{
    "there" = "Mikheal"
    "Hello" = "Goodbye"
}

$str = "Hello, there!"

ForEach($key in $r.Keys) {
    $str = $str -replace $key, $r[$key]
}

$str
6

Thank you all (Don, Dave & Craig) for your input. This has given a better insight.