How to handle backslash character in PowerShell -replace string operations?
Try the following:
$source = "\\\\somedir"You were only matching 1 backslash when replacing, which gave you the three \\\ at the start of your path.
The backslash is a regex escape character so \\ will be seen as, match only one \ and not two \\. As the first backslash is the escape character and not used to match.
Another way you can handle the backslashes is use the regex escape function.
$source = [regex]::escape('\\somedir')