How to Escape A Powershell Reserved Word?

To escape a PowerShell reserved word, you can use a backtick () or double quotes (" ") around the word. This tells PowerShell to treat the word as a literal string and not as a reserved keyword. For example, if you want to use a reserved word like "break" as a variable name, you can escape it like this: $breakor"break"`. This allows you to use reserved words in your PowerShell scripts without any issues.

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How to escape a PowerShell reserved word using the - character?

To escape a PowerShell reserved word using the - character, you can simply enclose the reserved word in single quotations. Here's an example:

Instead of typing:

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Get-Content

You can escape the reserved word "Get-Content" like this:

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'Get-Content'

This tells PowerShell to treat "Get-Content" as a literal string instead of a command or keyword.

How to escape a PowerShell reserved word using the - character twice?

To escape a PowerShell reserved word using the - character twice, you can enclose the reserved word in single quotation marks with the - character doubled before it.

For example, to escape the reserved word break, you would write it as:

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'-break'

This will prevent PowerShell from interpreting break as a reserved word and instead treat it as a literal string.

How to escape a PowerShell reserved word using the () characters?

To escape a PowerShell reserved word using the () characters, you can enclose the reserved word within a string and then use the () characters to reference the string. This will prevent PowerShell from interpreting the reserved word as a command or keyword.

For example, let's say you want to use the reserved word foreach in a PowerShell command. You can escape it like this:

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$escapedWord = "foreach"
&($escapedWord) ($item in $items) {
    # Code to be executed for each item
}

By enclosing foreach within a string and using &() to reference it, you can use the reserved word without any issues.