Question

Given test.txt containing:

test message 

I want to end up with:

testing a message 

I think the following should work, but it doesn’t:

Get-Content test.txt |% {$_-replace 't`r`n', 'ting`r`na '} 

How can I do a find and replace where what I’m finding contains CRLF?

Answer 1

A CRLF is two characters, of course, the CR and the LF. However, `n consists of both. For example:

PS C:\> $x = 'Hello >> World'  PS C:\> $x Hello World PS C:\> $x.contains('`n') True PS C:\> $x.contains('`r') False PS C:\> $x.replace('o`nW','o There`nThe W') Hello There The World PS C:\> 

I think you’re running into problems with the `r. I was able to remove the `r from your example, use only `n, and it worked. Of course, I don’t know exactly how you generated the original string so I don’t know what’s in there.