Issue combining variable and strings to create an environment variable output

I'm trying to combine some variable and string values in a script so that when the final environment variable is declared, PowerShell recognizes it. For example, the output of: ...

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LainRobertson
Jul 06, 2022
sglines

While I don't understand the use case, if you're contrived example is attempting to concatenate "User" and "Profile" whilst using $env, you can achieve this using the following (based on your initial example.)

$Profile = "Profile"; Invoke-Expression -Command "`$env:User$Profile";

Cheers,
Lain

LainRobertson

Silver Contributor

Jul 06, 2022

sglines

While I don't understand the use case, if you're contrived example is attempting to concatenate "User" and "Profile" whilst using $env, you can achieve this using the following (based on your initial example.)

$Profile = "Profile";
Invoke-Expression -Command "`$env:User$Profile";

Cheers,

Lain

sglines
Copper Contributor
Jul 06, 2022
That absolutely worked. I really appreciate the input!

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