Vista - howto? escape the comment character

While working with some xml, I find I want to get to the '#text' property of
a node. Can anyone give me a hint?

this obviously fails since '#' is the comment character
>GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title.#text}
Missing property name after '.' operator.
>

backtick '`' doesn't do the job
>GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title.`#text}
....missing of invalid property reference
>

the property exists
>GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title}
cf type #text
-- ---- -----
http://www.mic... text The content of the tag
....
>

I can't test this off right now, but off the top of my head I would say the
answer is to quote it - which is quite legal in PowerShell:

GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title."#text"}


"public news groups" <null@nil.no> wrote in message
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> While working with some xml, I find I want to get to the '#text' property
> of a node. Can anyone give me a hint?
>
> this obviously fails since '#' is the comment character
>>GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title.#text}
> Missing property name after '.' operator.
>>
>
> backtick '`' doesn't do the job
>>GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title.`#text}
> ...missing of invalid property reference
>>
>
> the property exists
>>GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title}
> cf type #text
> -- ---- -----
> http://www.mic... text The content of the tag
> ...
>>
>
>

>>GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title.#text}

try '#text'

GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title.'#text'}

Thanks. I have no reason why I didn't try that. I was fixated on escaping
it.


"Alex K. Angelopoulos [MVP]" <aka@online.mvps.org> wrote
>...off the top of my head I would say the answer is to quote it - which is
>quite legal in PowerShell:
>
> GetStuff|%{$b=[xml]$_;$b.item.title."#text"}