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Why does my generated JSON have too many "\\"?
Dear Community
I have a Powershell Script which generates a JSON file with data in it.
I have a problem with this file though. It generates double the amount of "\\"!
Do you know how I could solve this?
Here is my Code to generate the JSON File:
[ordered]@{
pcname='ENTER HERE';
share='\\ENTER HERE\C$';
filename='ENTER HERE';
destfilepath='some\folder';
destfile='$in.share\$in.destfilepath\$in.filename';
RDdestfile='C:\$in.destfilepath\';
Username="ENTER HERE";
Password="ENTER HERE";
EncryptedPassword=""
} | ConvertTo-Json | Out-File "$secFile"
$secFile is just a path to save the file to. Just tell me if you need this too.
The output JSON file looks liek this though:
{
"pcname": "ENTER HERE",
"share": "\\\\ENTER HERE\\C$",
"filename": "ENTER HERE",
"destfilepath": "some\\folder",
"destfile": "$in.share\\$in.destfilepath\\$in.filename",
"RDdestfile": "C:\\$in.destfilepath\\",
"Username": "ENTER HERE",
"Password": "ENTER HERE",
"EncryptedPassword": ""
}
Greetings
Martin
Edit: I also posted this question in the PowerShell.org Forum and Stackoverflow, just so you know
https://powershell.org/forums/topic/why-does-my-generated-json-have-too-many/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63446524/why-does-my-generated-json-have-too-many
Hello Martin,
What you are doing is quit dangerous. You are breaking your JSON file and will receive an error when you import your JSON file. A backslash is reserved by the JSON and so when you want to use a backslash inside your data you NEED to escape your backslash whit a backslash. Doesn’t look to well but it has to be that way. The convertfrom-json cmdlet will deal whit the double backslash.
Grtz, Manfred
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There is a way to escape the JSON:
[ordered]@{pcname='ENTER HERE';share='\\ENTER HERE\C$';filename='ENTER HERE';destfilepath='some\folder';destfile='$in.share\$in.destfilepath\$in.filename'; RDdestfile='C:\$in.destfilepath\'; Username="ENTER HERE"; Password="ENTER HERE"; EncryptedPassword="" } | ConvertTo-Json | Foreach {[System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Unescape($_)} | Out-File "$secFile"This will make the backslashes escape. Output:
{ "pcname": "ENTER HERE", "share": "\\ENTER HERE\C$", "filename": "ENTER HERE", "destfilepath": "some\folder", "destfile": "$in.share\$in.destfilepath\$in.filename", "RDdestfile": "C:\$in.destfilepath\", "Username": "ENTER HERE", "Password": "ENTER HERE", "EncryptedPassword": "" }Hello Martin,
What you are doing is quit dangerous. You are breaking your JSON file and will receive an error when you import your JSON file. A backslash is reserved by the JSON and so when you want to use a backslash inside your data you NEED to escape your backslash whit a backslash. Doesn’t look to well but it has to be that way. The convertfrom-json cmdlet will deal whit the double backslash.
Grtz, Manfred
