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user1068261
user1068261

Reputation: 31

Cannot resolve environment variables in Powershell with periods "." in them

I am trying to access environment variables using Powershell. The environment variables, which is out of my control, contain periods in this format:

ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE.1

Therefor, upon assigning the value of the environment variable to a local variable, it looks like this:

$myvar = $env:ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE.1

However, every time I try to retrieve this variable, it always leaves out the ".1", returning nothing.

I'm aware periods + Bash = no bueno, but again, this is out of my control and I need a work around. If it helps, I already tried this as well with no luck:

$myvar = ${env:ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE.1}

I appreciate any and all help on this. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1691

Answers (1)

Keith Hill
Keith Hill

Reputation: 201992

The last format you're using works for me:

PS> ls env:\fo*

Name                           Value
----                           -----
Foo.1                          bar.1


PS> ${env:foo.1}
bar.1

Upvotes: 3

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