Replace substring in PowerShell

The built-in -replace operator allows you to use a regex for this e.g.:

C:\PS> '-content-' -replace '-([^-]+)-', '&$1&'
&content&

Note the use of single quotes is essential on the replacement string so PowerShell doesn’t interpret the $1 capture group.

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