Question:
I keep getting error when I am trying to implement multiple line email body. I am suspecting bad syntax. Can’t find any example online. Any suggestions?
Error: Unexpected token 'EmployeeName"] to $AccountExpire"' in expression or statement.
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$subject = "Email for $item["EmployeeName"]. Date expire $AccountExpire" $body=@" Name: $item["Employee"] Class: Contractor Depart: $item["Depart"] Region: $item["Region"] Manager: $item["Manager"] New Date: $NewDate "@ SendUpdateEmail($subject,$Body) |
Answer:
You need to escape those array index operations with a subexpression ($()):
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$subject = "Email for $($item["EmployeeName"]). Date expire $AccountExpire" |
Same goes for multi-line strings (or here-strings as they’re formally called):
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$body=@" Name: $($item["Employee"]) Class: Contractor # and so on... "@ |
Personally, I’d go for a multi-line template and use the -f format operator to fill in the values:
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$bodyTemplate=@' Name: {0} Class: Contractor Depart: {1} Region: {2} Manager: {3} New Date: {4} '@ $body = $bodyTemplate -f $item["Employee"],$item["Depart"],$item["Region"],$item["Manager"],$NewDate |
When using -f, you can also format different types of data, so if $NewDate is a [DateTime] object, you could control formatting for that inside the template, eg.:
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@' Date: {0:HH:mm:ss} '@ -f (Get-Date) |
which would produce:
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Date: 14:55:09 |
(assuming you did this a five to 3 in the afternoon)