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 ...
Here is a basic example of theifstatement: PowerShell $condition=$trueif($condition) {Write-Output"The condition was true"} The first thing theifstatement does is evaluate the expression in parentheses. If it evaluates to$true, then it executes thescriptblockin the braces. If the value was...
If the statement writes multiple values, the value of the statement is that set of values stored in elements of an unconstrained 1-dimensional array, in the order in which they were written. Consider the following example:$v = for ($i = 10; $i -le 5; ++$i) { }...
I am getting below error Try statement is missing its catch or Finally block, WHile i am running my script to install application after checking domain I am having a problem importing a csv file into Powershell v3. I can't save my PowerShell Scripts to local drive I can't seem to use...
Example Code #1:Consider the below example for nested If statement. $srv = Get-Service Spooler if($srv){ if($srv.Status -eq "Running"){"Service is Running"} if($srv.Status -eq "Stopped"){"Service is Stopped"} } Code #2:
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 ...
If you're not running PowerShell as an Administrator, you might see error messages that you cannot retrieve information about a log.ExamplesExample 1: Get all the logs from a local computerThis command gets all the event logs on the local computer. Logs are listed in...
the window name of the application itself is Form1, while the TextBox control has no window name. If a control has a window name, you can use that name to programmatically get a handle to the control. However, when a control does not have a window name, you can use the control index...
So as you saw,Test-Pathtests the existence of a path and returns a boolean value. This return value can be evaluated in a IF statement for example. Tip of the Hat This article is based on an earlier Scripting Guys blog article atHow can I determine if a folder exists on a computer?
This can be used for any finalization work, if needed.In my example, I want to produce a filtering function that will accept a collection of names as input objects, and then try to ping each one. Each one that can be pinged successfully will be output to the pipeline; systems that ...