Go to next item in ForEach-Object
You may want to use the Continue
statement to continue with the innermost loop.
Excerpt from PowerShell
help file:
In a script, the
continue
statement causes program flow to move immediately to the top of the innermost loop controlled by any of these statements:
for
foreach
while
You just have to replace the break
with a return
statement.
Think of the code inside the Foreach-Object
as an anonymous function. If you have loops inside the function, just use the control keywords applying to the construction (continue
, break
, ...).
I know this is an old post, but I wanted to add something I learned for the next folks who land here while googling.
In Powershell 5.1, you want to use continue
to move onto the next item in your loop. I tested with 6 items in an array, had a foreach
loop through, but put an if statement with:
foreach($i in $array){
write-host -fore green "hello $i"
if($i -like "something"){
write-host -fore red "$i is bad"
continue
write-host -fore red "should not see this"
}
}
Of the 6 items, the 3rd one was something. As expected, it looped through the first 2, then the matching something gave me the red line where $i
matched, I saw something is bad
and then it went on to the next item in the array without saying should not see this
. I tested with return
and it exited the loop altogether.