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Mar 1, 2018

PowerShell For Programmers: Strings, Quotes and Quirks

Kory Thacher

Welcome back everyone! This will be a short, but important entry for the guide. The difference between quote characters is something I’m asked about all the time. It is important to understand in PowerShell, but most of the time it probably won’t make a difference. TLDR: If you're just typing a value like "alg" then it doesn't matter, but i...