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lukehawk
lukehawk

Reputation: 1493

Hidden new line characters in string?

I have this response coming back from an API, which appears to have newline characters in it. But, I cannot find what characters are actually there, and thus cannot split this string.

$response = curl.exe POST --silent --user $creds --data-raw $request $url
$response.contains("`f")
$response.contains("`r")
$response.contains("`n")
$response

Output:

False
False
False
"92837F755","BES","780532219"
"46431P106","BES","!NA"
"Y2069P309","BES","!NA"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1668

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200533

$response contains an array of strings. Echoing the array displays one string at a time, even though the individual strings don't contain any of the characters you're testing for.

If you want the response as a single string without newlines you can simply put the variable in double quotes:

"$response"

By default this joins the array elements with a space between them. If you don't want that you can set $OFS = '' first, or simply join the array with an empty string:

$response -join ''

or

-join $response

If you want the response with newlines you can pipe the curl output through Out-String:

$response = curl.exe ... | Out-String

Upvotes: 3

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