Let’s start with two examples showing how to use PowerShell If statements. Example 1: Checking if a number is positive or negative In the following example, we have a variable, $number, set to 10. The If statement checks whether the value of $number is greater than 0 using the -gt ...
The if statement Here is a basic example of the if statement: PowerShell Copy $condition = $true if ( $condition ) { Write-Output "The condition was true" } The first thing the if statement does is evaluate the expression in parentheses. If it evaluates to $true, then it executes ...
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If the statement is used to evaluate the condition. If the condition succeeds then block statement runs. You can specify more than one or more conditions in If statement, depending upon the operators used (comparison, Boolean, bitwise) statement evaluates condition. Example Code: if((Get-Service...
The break keyword stops processing and exits the switch statement.The continue keyword stops processing the current value, but continues processing any subsequent values.The following example processes an array of numbers and displays if they are odd or even. Negative numbers are skipped with the ...
For example, use ComputerName, not computername. This naming scheme helps people familiar with PowerShell discover your functions and look and feel like the default cmdlets. The param statement allows you to define one or more parameters. A comma (,) separates the parameter definitions. For ...
The end statement runs after the function has the values. If the function has a process keyword, each object in $input is removed from $input and assigned to $_. The following example has a process statement list: PowerShell Copy function Get-PipelineInput { process {"Processing: $_ " ...
In the above example, if you didn't know the exact name of the service application, you could rewrite the first statement to get the service application based on a search of the partial name. For example: Copy $app=get-sprsserviceapplication | where {$_.name -like " ssrs_testapp *"}...
if ($dtmDate) { Write-Host "Date selected: $dtmDate" } Here we’re using an if statement to determine whether or not $dtmDate has a value; if it doesn’t, that means the user pressed ESC. If it does have a value, then we simply echo back that value, like so:Copy...
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