Bug if Path to ps1-Script contains '&'

[Jehoschua]

Product, version and build: PowerShell Studio 2017 v5.4.143
32 or 64 bit version of product: 64
Operating system: Win10
32 or 64 bit OS: 64

Good afternoon

PowerShell itself has no problems to run this script containing ampersands:

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A:\Scripts\Backup&Reset-Outlook\Backup&Reset-Outlook.ps1

It's really very annoying that PowerShell Studio is reserving some usual(!) Filesystem characters "for future use": it stops working:

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+ A:\Scripts\Backup&Reset-Outlook\Backup&Reset-Outlook.ps1
+                                       ~
The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quotation marks ("&") to pass it as part of a string.>> Script Ended

Could you please fix this problem?
If you are forced "sometimes in the future" to change the meaning of a usual filesystem character then you still can think about to stop PowerShell Studio to do its work. But it's pretty sure that such hacks are a bad idea in the future, too.

kind regards,
Thomas

[Alexander Riedel]

I am not sure how you got the idea we have anything to do with that. It is a PowerShell error message and we cannot fix anything in PowerShell.
A simple google search for the error retrieves plenty of documentation regarding the issue.
https://www.google.com/search?q=The+amp ... e&ie=UTF-8

Maybe you should start here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/188 ... characters

Good luck.