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I want to save a string with a skeletton and a few variables in there to use it later.

My string:

$moddeduserdata = ("{"Id":$userid,"Timestamp":"$timestamp","FirstName":"$numberout","LastName":"$numberout","CallId":"$numberout"}")

What I want is the following output:

{"Id":261,"Timestamp":"AAAAAAAJ1KM=","FirstName":"5503","LastName":"5503","CallId": "5503"}

so this results in the error: "unexpected token"

I also tried with ' ' instead of " " but then it just saves the line without putting in my variables.

mklement0
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friendly joe
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  • Are you looking for a hashtable? `@{Id=$userid;Timestamp=$timestamp;FirstName=$numberout;LastName=$numberout;CallId=$numberout}` – flashbang Dec 02 '20 at 22:36
  • @flashbang hey there, no I need to have this in one-line but the varibles (like $userid) outwritten. – friendly joe Dec 02 '20 at 22:55
  • What's the *exact* string you want? And do you want the variables to be expanded? – flashbang Dec 02 '20 at 22:56
  • @flashbang just updated the description – friendly joe Dec 02 '20 at 23:10
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    FYI, if you're trying to generate JSON - which that looks like - you can use `ConvertTo-Json` with a hashtable (like the above) as an argument. Use the `-Compress` switch if you want to remove the extra spaces. – flashbang Dec 02 '20 at 23:31

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You're trying to embed verbatim " characters in a double-quoted string ("..."), so you must escape them as `" ("" works too):

$moddeduserdata = "{`"Id`":$userid,`"Timestamp`":`"$timestamp`",`"FirstName`":`"$numberout`",`"LastName`":`"$numberout`",`"CallId`":`"$numberout`"}"

While single-quoted strings ('...') allow you to embed " chars. as-is (no need for escaping), they do not perform the string interpolation (expansion of embedded variable references) you need.

For more information about PowerShell string literals, see the bottom section of this answer.

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Or make an object then convert it to compressed json:

$userid,$timestamp,$numberout,$numberout,$numberout = echo 261 AAAAAAAJ1KM 5503 5503 5503
[pscustomobject]@{Id=$userid;Timestamp=$timestamp;FirstName=$numberout;
  LastName=$numberout;CallId=$numberout} | convertto-json -compress

{"Id":261,"Timestamp":"AAAAAAAJ1KM=","FirstName":"5503","LastName":"5503","CallId":"5503"}
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