{"id":234,"date":"2014-12-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/12\/06\/powertip-use-powershell-to-replace-characters-in-string\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:43","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-replace-characters-in-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-replace-characters-in-string\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Replace Characters in String"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic and non-number <\/span>characters in a string.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace every non-alphabetic and non-number character in a string
           with a hyphen?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Windows PowerShell –Replace<\/b> operator and the \\w<\/b> regular expression character class.
           The \\w<\/b> character class includes the letters a-z, A-Z, and numbers. Here is an example:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $s = 'abc.123,DEF&ghi'<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $s -replace "\\w", '-'<\/p>\n

—.—,—&—<\/p>\n

PS C:\\>  <\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic and non-number characters in a string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace every non-alphabetic and non-number character in a string            with a hyphen?  Use the Windows PowerShell –Replace operator and the \\w regular expression character class.            The \\w character class includes the letters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,174,3,45],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-regular-expressions","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic and non-number characters in a string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace every non-alphabetic and non-number character in a string            with a hyphen?  Use the Windows PowerShell –Replace operator and the \\w regular expression character class.            The \\w character class includes the letters […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}