Escape characters when generating Powershell scripts using C#

Question

I use VS2010, C#, .NET 3.5 for generate Powershell scripts (ps1 files).

Then, it is required escape characters for Powershell.

Any suggestions about it for d

Answer 1

The other option would be to use a regex:

private static Regex CharactersToEscape = new Regex(@"['""]"); // Extend the character set as requird


public string EscapeForPowerShell(string input) {
  // $& is the characters that were matched
  return CharactersToEscape.Replace(input, "`$&");
}

Note: you don't need to escape backslashes: PowerShell does not use them as escape characters. This makes writing regexes somewhat easier.