How to write multiple function calls in multiple lines in PowerShell?-CodePudding

I'm currently playing around on PowerShell, and I'm wondering how I can call multiple functions after eachother, but giving them each their own line.

I currently have this:

$leet= $text.replace("a", "4").replace("e", "1").replace("e", "3");

But I want it more like this:

$leet= $text
    .replace("a", "4")
    .replace("e", "1")
    .replace("e", "3");

But PowerShell doesn't really like the newlines, and it doesn't work either when I add the ` to the end of each line followed by another one.

So, am I missing something, or is this not possible in PowerShell?

CodePudding user response：

As Jeroen Mostert notes you can get line continuation for free by specifying the operator (.) and then placing the whitespace between it and the right-hand operand:

$leet = $text.
    Replace("a", "4").
    Replace("e", "1").
    Replace("e", "3")

(note that the last call, Replace("e", "3"), does nothing - all the e's have already been replaced by the preceding call)