Go to next item in ForEach-Object

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I have a PowerShell script that does some checks on all Domain Admins in a number of domains  For each user account a number of checks are preformed  When one of them fails the script should go to the next admin in the list   I currently have something like this  simplified    Get-QADGroupMember  Domain Admins    Select-Object SamAccountName   ForEach-Object         Do something     if  ThisCheckIsOK                break              Do something else     if ThisCheckIsNotOK                break                     This stops the whole script  Is there a way to go to the next element    foreach movenext   does not work since  foreach is null

User · Accepted Answer

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

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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

User · Answer

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

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