# Replace special character in powershell
**URL:** https://forums.powershell.org/t/replace-special-character-in-powershell/2244
**Category:** PowerShell Help
**Created:** [February 4, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/replace-special-character-in-powershell/2244 "2014-02-04T17:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@akash-kumar](https://forums.powershell.org/u/akash-kumar)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/replace-special-character-in-powershell/2244/1 "2014-02-04T17:33:24Z")
Hi All,
I am very new on powershell forum here. For one of my daily manually find and replace task i want to create a powershell script to find and replace some network location and replace with new one.
Like :-
To find : \filedep\iservershare\DCSVWA
Replace with \EGSISFS01\VolksWagon\DCSVWA
I am able to replace text without any special characters but for above I am getting regular expression error.
And also after replacing above string i want to save result in a text file which logs records of files which have been updated.
Thanks
Akash.
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### Author:  [@akash-kumar](https://forums.powershell.org/u/akash-kumar)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/replace-special-character-in-powershell/2244/2 "2014-02-04T18:13:51Z")
I got the solution here:-
$c = $c -replace [regex]::Escape(‘\filedep\iservershare\DCSVWA’),(‘\EGSISFS01\VolksWagon\DCSVWA’)
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### Author:  [@bobmccoy](https://forums.powershell.org/u/bobmccoy)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/replace-special-character-in-powershell/2244/3 "2014-02-05T01:00:17Z")
`$a = “\filedep\iservershare\DCSVWA\somefilename.txt”
$a = $a -replace “\\filedep\iservershare\DCSVWA”,“\EGSISFS01\VolksWagon\DCSVWA”
$a
`
The backslash is an escape character in Regex.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.powershell.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/replace-special-character-in-powershell/2244/4 "2014-02-05T02:31:16Z")
PowerShell’s -replace operator uses regular expressions, and also works well on collections. If your $c variable happens to just be a single string (not a collection of strings), though, you can also just use the Replace() method of the String class, which keeps regex out of the picture:
```
$c = $c.Replace('\\filedep\iservershare\DCSVWA', '\\EGSISFS01\VolksWagon\DCSVWA')
```
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### Author:  [@dotnVo](https://forums.powershell.org/u/dotnVo)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/replace-special-character-in-powershell/2244/5 "2024-05-16T20:52:24Z")