This may be as noob question but how do i get a variable into quotes
Write-host
$string1 = Read-Host
Write-host $string1
If i typed abc for write it will show abc.
how to i get it to show "abc"
doing "$string1" would just show as "$string" and not the value of it in quotes
The enclosing " characters in "$string1" have syntactic function and are therefore stripped during parsing.
To make such characters a part of the data, you must embed escaped versions of them (`"):
PS> "`"$string1`"" # assume that $string1 contains verbatim: foo
"foo"
` is PowerShell's general escape character; in the context of "..." strings (expandable strings) you can use `" and "" interchangeably.
Also note that the command above relies on PowerShell's implicit output feature - no need for Write-Host, unless you explicitly want to write to the display only, without PowerShell's rich output formatting - see this answer for more information.
