How do I escape "Quotes" in a powershell string?

I need to send a simple string to a web api using Powershell, and I have to ensure the value in the HTML body has "Quotes" around it, because the content type has to be application/json.

For example:

$specialKey = "101010"
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Put `
-Uri $keyAssignmentUri `
-Header @{"content-type"="application/json"} `
-Body "$specialKey"

When I inspect this call in Fiddler, I see that the body is 101010 instead of "101010". How do I send the body value with quotes?

In order to have the "Quotes", you need to provide the escape character (`) before every " which you want to print or send.

$PrintQuotesAsString = "`"How do I escape `"Quotes`" in a powershell string?`""

Write-Host $PrintQuotesAsString

"How do I escape "Quotes" in a powershell string?"

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[1]:

Replacing double quotes (") with a sequence of back-slash, backtick and double-quotes worked for me:

\`"

**Example**: I want to set (using the *env* command) an environment variable named *SCOPES* to the following value, then launch *node app.js*:

{
"email":"Grant permissions to read your email address",
"address":"Grant permissions to read your address information",
"phone":"Grant permissions to read your mobile phone number"
}

so I used:

env SCOPES="{ \`"email\`": \`"Grant permissions to read your email address\`", \`"address\`": \`"Grant permissions to read your address information\`", \`"phone\`": \`"Grant permissions to read your mobile phone number\`" }" node app.js

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Assuming you don't need to do variable substitution in your string, a simple solution is to just surround it with single quotes to make it a literal string:

$specialKey = '"101010"'