Powershell string variable substitution

Question

I am quite familiar with bash's ability to substitute parts of strings in a regex-ish fashion using braces. E.g.:

a = "Hello, World!"
echo "${a/World/Nancy}"

The above will print "Hello, Nancy!" Does powershell have the ability to do substring-subtitution in this way, or is there an equivalent alternative?

possible duplicate of Powershell Replace Characters in a String. There are also many examples of this on SO — Matt
– Matt, Commented Oct 27, 2014 at 17:47

Kohlbrr · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27 17:45:37Z

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The -replace operator (supports regex):

$a = "Hello, World!"
$a -replace "World","Nancy"

answered Oct 27, 2014 at 17:33

Kohlbrr

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