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BUG in [Management.Automation.WildcardPattern]::Escape()?

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Old 04-10-2007   #1 (permalink)
Roman Kuzmin
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BUG in [Management.Automation.WildcardPattern]::Escape()?

Just a silly test:

0> $e = '[`*?]'
0> $escaped = [Management.Automation.WildcardPattern]::Escape($e)
0> $escaped
`[``*`?`]

Remarks: backtick itself is not escaped, it looks suspicious (I used to
think that escaping character has to be always escaped itself); or even
worse: backtick is escaped but * is not.. >

0> $e -like $escaped
True

This is ok, because $escaped actually represents $e. And $e should be the
only string represented by $escaped (case sensitivity does not matter in this
case). But:

0> '[`xxx?]' -like $escaped
True
0> '[`xxxx?]' -like $escaped
True
0> '[`xxxxx?]' -like $escaped
True

P.S. all mentioned characters are valid for example for key or value names
of Registry provider. BTW, currently Rename-Item has no -LiteralPath
parameter (overlook?), so there are cases when we just have to use
[Management.Automation.WildcardPattern]::Escape() (or something else for now).

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Thanks,
Roman
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