Add double quotes to variable to escape space

Question

I am running a script which has $FileName variable containing the absolute path with spaces. Due to the space within the directory name and file name, the script fails to ex

Answer 1

In addition to the backtick escape character (`), you can use the -f format operator:

$FilePath = Join-Path $Dir -ChildPath "$File.txt"
$FilePathWithQuotes = '"{0}"' -f $FilePath

This will ensure that $FilePath is expanded before being placed in the string