Remove Double Quotes from String in PowerShell

Using Replace() Method

Use the Replace() method to remove double quotes from a string in PowerShell.

For the above code, we used the Replace() method to replace doubles quotes with empty space. The Replace() method took two arguments:

• First was the character or string that we wanted to replace – Double quotes (`")
• Second was the character or string we wanted to replace it with – Empty String

For example, the above code replaced all the occurrences of double quotes within the string with empty space. The order of given arguments to the Replace() method matters a lot. Note that the Double quotes was given as the first argument to search in a string, and a Empty space was given as the second argument to replace with the found match.

Let’s see another example where we removed double quotes by replacing them with single quotes.

Using -replace Operator

Use the -replace operator to remove double quotes from a string in PowerShell.

Here, we used the -replace operator, similar to the Replace() method, which took two arguments; the first was the regular expression pattern we wanted to match, and the second was the replacement string. Now replacement string can be anything; we are using a single quote and an empty space for the above example.

Here, the first variable, $newString1, replaced double quotes within a string with single quotes, whereas the second variable, $newString2, replaced double quotes with an empty string.

Note: The -replace operator works the same way as the .Replace() method, in which we provide a string to find and replace. However, the -replace operator has one significant advantage: it allows us to search for matching strings using regular expressions (regex), which is impossible using the .Replace() method.

Consider another example of using a regular expression to remove double quotes in PowerShell:

The above code snippet replaced all double quotes in the specified string with single quotes. Here, the -replace operator was used with the regular expression [""] to match the double quotes.

That’s all about how to remove double quotes from String in PowerShell.