PowerShell Here-String that keeps newlines

Question

The PowerShell code:

$string = @'
Line 1

Line 3
'@
$string

Outputs:

Line 1
Line 3

But I want it to output:

Line 1

Line 3

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

In ISE works fine and in script works too. I don't remember where, but I read that is a bug in the console host code and empty lines are discarded when entered interactively for here-string. At the moment I can't test if in Powershell V.3.0 console bug is fixed.

Link to the issue: http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/571644/a-here-string-cannot-contain-blank-line

Workaround: add a backticks `

$string = @"
Line 1
`
Line 3
"@