{"id":4775,"date":"2012-10-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/24\/powertip-replacing-a-string-inside-another-string-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-replacing-a-string-inside-another-string-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-replacing-a-string-inside-another-string-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Replacing a String Inside Another String with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn two different techniques to replace strings inside another string by using Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>I have the following string: this`&#8221;is a string.&nbsp;I want to remove the quotation mark (&#8220;) and replace it with nothing&mdash;no space, just nothing. I want the results to look like this: thisis a string.&nbsp;The backtick (`) is used to &ldquo;escape&rdquo; the quotation mark. How can I use the&nbsp;<strong>Replace<\/strong>&nbsp;method to replace the quotation mark with nothing, if the string is held in a variable $arr?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;There are several approaches to this. Here are a couple of solutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the <strong>Replace<\/strong> method from the system.string .NET framework class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">$arr.Replace(&#8220;`&#8221;&#8221;,&#8221;&#8221;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the <i>ascii<\/i> value of the quotation mark, and use the <strong>Replace<\/strong> method from the system.string .NET framework class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">$arr.Replace([char]34,&#8221;&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn two different techniques to replace strings inside another string by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;I have the following string: this`&#8221;is a string.&nbsp;I want to remove the quotation mark (&#8220;) and replace it with nothing&mdash;no space, just nothing. I want the results to look like this: thisis a string.&nbsp;The backtick (`) is used to &ldquo;escape&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn two different techniques to replace strings inside another string by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;I have the following string: this`&#8221;is a string.&nbsp;I want to remove the quotation mark (&#8220;) and replace it with nothing&mdash;no space, just nothing. I want the results to look like this: thisis a string.&nbsp;The backtick (`) is used to &ldquo;escape&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","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=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/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=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}