passing variables into Invoke-WebRequest -uri argument powershell

Question

a site has a directory structure like this:

https://web.site.net/documents/2018/

where 2018 is the year

my code is like this:

$year = Read-Host -Prompt 'Enter Year'
(Invoke-WebRequest -uri 'https://web.site.net/documents/$year/').Links.href | 
Select-string 'https://web.site.net/documents/$year/#'

How do I properly escape, so that the year properly goes into the url?

Adil B · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-14 04:32:44Z

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Try using double quotes instead of single quotes. In Powershell, double quotes around a value signify that variable names should be substituted for their contents. On the other hand, single-quoted values are treated as literals.

(Invoke-WebRequest -uri "https://web.site.net/documents/$year/").Links.href | 
Select-string "https://web.site.net/documents/$year/#"

See this page for more information about single versus double quotes in Powershell.

answered Jun 14, 2018 at 4:32

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