MDCS removing $ in file

Question

I have a completed MDCS XML file that I am looking to run. However, I have run into an issue running this script as the filepath to the imagery has a $ in the pathname. I've noticed that any of these figures in the XML file are removed during runtime.

I couldn't see anything in the documentation about how the running code deals with this symbol outside of it using it to mark an internal variable as eg: $(variable)$.

JamesHead-Mears1 · Accepted Answer

MDCS utilises an underlying powershell to run python.exe. Powershell uses $ as a parameter input as such it requires the following to bypass it:

$$$