I am having a problem executing a powershell script where I want to point to different versions of a bat file based on some arguments
Hard coding the path as follows works with no issues:
& 'C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\bin\mcc.bat' -W $command -T link:exe ...
but replacing a folder name with a variable causes it to fail:
$Matlab_version = "R2022a"
& 'C:\Program Files\MATLAB\$Matlab_version\bin\mcc.bat' -W $command -T link:exe
with the following output:
& : The term 'C:\Program Files\MATLAB\%$Matlab_version%\bin\mcc.bat' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:3
+ & 'C:\Program Files\MATLAB\%$Matlab_version%\bin\mcc.bat' -W $comman ...
I’ve tried even creating a variable with the path name
$mcc_loc = & 'C:\Program Files\MATLAB\$Matlab_version\bin\mcc.bat'
Write-Host $mcc_loc
which produces a string with the correct path. Any help is greatly appreciated. My dumb solution is to have an if statement for each $Matlab_version and hard code it in there but I’m sure there has to be a more elegant solution
>Solution :
It’s because you are using single quotation marks.
variables will not be interpreted within single marks, everything will be taken as a literal string.
use double quotes instead when passing in variables mid string.
example:
