Escape character to escape "." when Editing an XML file with powershell

Question

                      <Something>
                          <Somethings.few>
                            <thing  stuff1="XX"  stuff2= "XXX">
                               <thing2>
                                 <stuff value="YY">
                                </thing2>
                            </thing>
                          </Somethings.few>
                      </Something>

I want to change the value of stuff1 using powershell, but the problem is with Somethings.few

$xmlFile = [xml](gc file.xml)
$xmlFile.Something.Somethings.few.thing.stuff1="ZZ"

does not work for me

CB. · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-07 14:12:12Z

4

try like this:

 $xmlfile.Something.'Somethings.few'.thing.stuff1 = "zz"

No needs to escape the dot just enclose in ' any name composed with it.

answered Oct 7, 2013 at 14:12

CB.

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