Powershell: Find/Replace pattern of ASCII control characters

Question

I\'m trying to write a script to search the contents of a file, and when it comes across a grouping of ASCII control characters, to insert a CR/LF.

The pattern of ch

Answer 1

Michael Sorens' helpful answer explains the problem with your approach well and offers a working solution.

To offer a simpler alternative:

$CR = ([char[]] (3, 0, 2, 3, 1)) -join ''

• 3, 0, 2, 3, 1 creates an array of integers with the Unicode code points of the characters to create.

• Cast [char[]] converts the code points to actual characters ([char]).

• -join '' joins the array of characters (with no separator) to for a single string.