PS> 'abcjjadjjnamndabc' -replace 'abc', '$$'
PS> 'abcjjadjjnamndabc' | foreach { $_ + " end of statement" }
I have above 2 statements which can run independently, but I want to do this action in one attempt.
I did try something like below, but syntax is failing.
PS> 'abcjjadjjnamndabc' | foreach { $_ + "end of statement" } |-replace 'abc', '',''
Your main problem is that -replace is not a function, cmdlet or method. It's a PowerShell Operator and that means you cannot do |-replace 'abc', '' to pipe into it.
There are many ways you can combine these, the simplest is to swap the order and do the replace first:
'abcjjadjjnamndabc' -replace 'abc', '' | foreach { "$_ end of statement" }
Or to wrap the pipeline in parentheses, and do the replace on the result of that:
('abcjjadjjnamndabc' | foreach { "$_ end of statement" }) -replace 'abc', ''
Or (if you're not using regular expressions in the search/replace) to chain these similar methods:
'abcjjadjjnamndabc'.Replace('abc', '').ForEach({"$_ end of statement"})
-replace is optional if your goal is to delete text.
-replacecan work with:('stringhere' | % {$_ + 'end'}) -replace 'abc''abcjjadjjnamndabc' | ForEach-Object { "$_ end of statement" -replace 'abc' }