Retaining newlines in PowerShell string

Question

In a PowerShell script, I\'m capturing the string output of an EXE file in a variable, then concatenating it with some other text to build an email body.

However, w

Answer 1

Perhaps this helps:

$msg = "Output of other.exe: " + "`r`n" + ( (.\other.exe) -join "`r`n")

You get a list of lines and not a text from other.exe

$a = ('abc', 'efg')
 "Output of other.exe: " + $a


 $a = ('abc', 'efg')
 "Output of other.exe: " +  "`r`n" + ($a -join "`r`n")