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-NoNewLine Not working as expected in Powershell

I am using powershell to concatenate a key but the Writehost is giving me a carriage delimiter and 3 lines instead of a single line when using -NoNewLine.

I have tried -NoNewLine along with various other code sets such as 

write-host -replace "[`r`n](-join(

Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5VTTBSRFE1UVROQk9FRTJNREJEUWtGR1JEazFNRGN4TlRReU9FUXpOalZFT0RZeVJEQXpSZyJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2lkZW50aXR5LmF1dGgwLWRldi5zcy5hd3MuYmNpZGFoby5jb20vIiwic3ViIjoidHFYQjEw ejVUT0ZvZ05rNDAzQmZYZkhrTkJxSVJ0UENAY2xpZW50cyIsImF1ZCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vaWRlbnRpdHkuYXV0aDAtZGV2LnNzLmF3cy5iY2lkYWhvLmNvbS9hcGkvdjIvIiwiaWF0IjoxNTUzNTI2MDk0LCJleHAiOjE1NTM2MTI0OTQsImF6cCI6InRxWEIxMHo1VE9Gb2dOazQwM0JmWGZIa05C cUlSdFBDIiwic2NvcGUiOiJyZWFkOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgY3JlYXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgZGVsZXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgdXBkYXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgcmVhZDp1c2VycyB1cGRhdGU6dXNlcnMgZGVsZXRlOnVzZXJzIGNyZWF0ZTp1c2VycyByZWFkOnVzZXJzX2FwcF9t PeIoyImIORI59k0Ee_Ay4jlSpiPT_FEdlln_ZWfcEDCPQ

I also have been scouring Stack overflow and everyone says having the no new line should be the answer

$assoc1 ="Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5VTTBSRFE1UVROQk9FRTJNREJEUWtGR1JEazFNRGN4TlRReU9FUXpOalZFT0RZeVJEQXpSZyJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2lkZW50aXR5LmF1dGgwLWRldi5zcy5hd3MuYmNpZGFoby5jb20vIiwic3ViIjoidHFYQjEw" 
$assoc2 ="ejVUT0ZvZ05rNDAzQmZYZkhrTkJxSVJ0UENAY2xpZW50cyIsImF1ZCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vaWRlbnRpdHkuYXV0aDAtZGV2LnNzLmF3cy5iY2lkYWhvLmNvbS9hcGkvdjIvIiwiaWF0IjoxNTUzNTI2MDk0LCJleHAiOjE1NTM2MTI0OTQsImF6cCI6InRxWEIxMHo1VE9Gb2dOazQwM0JmWGZIa05C" 
$assoc3 ="cUlSdFBDIiwic2NvcGUiOiJyZWFkOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgY3JlYXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgZGVsZXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgdXBkYXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgcmVhZDp1c2VycyB1cGRhdGU6dXNlcnMgZGVsZXRlOnVzZXJzIGNyZWF0ZTp1c2VycyByZWFkOnVzZXJzX2FwcF9t"


$apikey = ($assoc1,$assoc2,$assoc3)


write-host $apikey  -NoNewLine

I would expect this to run and the result to be one line 

"Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5VTTBSRFE1UVROQk9FRTJNREJEUWtGR1JEazFNRGN4TlRReU9FUXpOalZFT0RZeVJEQXpSZyJ9.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"

instead the result set gives me 3 lines of codes instead of 1. Is this a limitation on powershell?

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Solution

  • You can just join them, this way...

    $assoc1,$assoc2,$assoc3 -join ''

    Though this will show as 3 lines on screen, because of screen formatting, it is not.

    ($assoc1 ="Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5VTTBSRFE1UVROQk9FRTJNREJEUWtGR1JEazFNRGN4TlRReU9FUXpOalZFT0RZeVJEQXpSZyJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2lkZW50aXR5LmF1dGgwLWRldi5zcy5hd3MuYmNpZGFoby5jb20vIiwic3ViIjoidHFYQjEw" ).Length
($assoc2 ="ejVUT0ZvZ05rNDAzQmZYZkhrTkJxSVJ0UENAY2xpZW50cyIsImF1ZCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vaWRlbnRpdHkuYXV0aDAtZGV2LnNzLmF3cy5iY2lkYWhvLmNvbS9hcGkvdjIvIiwiaWF0IjoxNTUzNTI2MDk0LCJleHAiOjE1NTM2MTI0OTQsImF6cCI6InRxWEIxMHo1VE9Gb2dOazQwM0JmWGZIa05C" ).Length
($assoc3 ="cUlSdFBDIiwic2NvcGUiOiJyZWFkOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgY3JlYXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgZGVsZXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgdXBkYXRlOmNsaWVudF9ncmFudHMgcmVhZDp1c2VycyB1cGRhdGU6dXNlcnMgZGVsZXRlOnVzZXJzIGNyZWF0ZTp1c2VycyByZWFkOnVzZXJzX2FwcF9t").Length

($apikey = $assoc1,$assoc2,$assoc3 -join '').Length

# Results 
220
220
220
660

$apikey.Count
1

$apikey | clip

    If you paste this into notepad, without 'Word Wrap' on, you'll see it's one line.

    Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ik5VTTBSRFE1UVROQk9FRTJNREJEUWtGR1JEazFNRGN4TlRReU9FUXpOalZFT0RZeVJEQXpSZyJ9.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