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Using Here-strings for Multiline Text in PowerShell

📖 Scenario: You are creating a script to store a multiline message that will be displayed later. This message includes multiple lines of text, like a short poem or a note.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to use PowerShell here-strings to store and display multiline text easily.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable with a multiline string using a here-string.

Use the correct syntax for starting and ending a here-string.

Print the multiline string exactly as it is stored.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Here-strings are useful when you need to store or output blocks of text like emails, reports, or configuration files in scripts.

💼 Career

Many automation and scripting jobs require handling multiline text data cleanly, making here-strings an essential skill for PowerShell users.

1

Create a multiline string variable using a here-string

Create a variable called message and assign it a multiline string using a here-string. The string should contain exactly these three lines:
Hello,
This is a multiline
message.

PowerShell

# Create the variable 'message' with a here-string containing the three lines
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use @" to start and "@ to end the here-string. Write the lines exactly as given between them.

2

Add a configuration variable for a greeting prefix

Create a variable called greeting and set it to the string "Note:".

PowerShell

$message = @"
Hello,
This is a multiline
message.
"@
# Create the variable 'greeting' and set it to "Note:" below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just assign the string "Note:" to the variable greeting.

3

Combine the greeting and message using a here-string

Create a new variable called fullMessage that combines the greeting and the message variables into one multiline string using a here-string. The first line should be the greeting, followed by the original message lines.

PowerShell

$message = @"
Hello,
This is a multiline
message.
"@
$greeting = "Note:"
# Create 'fullMessage' combining 'greeting' and 'message' using a here-string
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Start a new here-string for fullMessage. Inside it, place $greeting on the first line, then $message on the next lines.

4

Print the combined multiline message

Use Write-Output to print the fullMessage variable so the multiline text appears exactly as stored.

PowerShell

$message = @"
Hello,
This is a multiline
message.
"@
$greeting = "Note:"
$fullMessage = @"
$greeting
$message"@
# Print the 'fullMessage' variable below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use Write-Output $fullMessage to display the multiline string.