quotes

On many occasions I have dealt with passing batch files arguments with spaces, quotes, percents, and slashes and all sorts of combinations of them. Usually I managed to figure out how to accomplish what I want, but this time I am stuck. I have tried a couple of hundred combinations now and my head is starting to hurt. I’ve reduced the problem to a—fairly—simple requirement: pass from one batch file to another, an argument that contains some space-delimited text, one of which is a quoted space . That is, one batch file should pass some string X to another so that the the second one echos "A "B

Why does PowerShell treat quoted parameters differently when you invoke the script directly (in a PowerShell console or ISE) or when you invoke it via another PowerShell instance? Here is the script ( TestQuotes.ps1 ): param ( [string] $Config = $null ) "Config = $Config" Here are the results: PS D:\Scripts> .\TestQuotes.ps1 -Config "A B C" Config = A B C PS D:\Scripts> PowerShell .\TestQuotes.ps1 -Config "A B C" Config = A PS D:\Scripts> .\TestQuotes.ps1 -Config 'A B C' Config = A B C PS D:\Scripts> PowerShell .\TestQuotes.ps1 -Config 'A B C' Config = A Any ideas? According to the PowerShell

Now I've got very basic regex skills, only used regex a couple of times for basic stuff. This has probably been asked before, which I apologize for, but I couldn't find any answer for this. Found similar, though and tried to adapt it but to no avail. OK, to the question - How do I replace a space only between certain characters (doublequotes in this case)? Say i have the following string: "mission podcast" modcast A B C "D E F" I want to replace the spaces between mission and podcast as well as the ones between D , E & F whilst leaving the other ones untouched. P.S. What if space was a string?