Looping structures
PowerShell provides a variety of looping structures for evaluating and executing objects. Loops are helpful in situations where you need to take in an array of objects and process the individual values in the array. Subsequently, loops are also helpful in situations where you need to wait for a specific value within an array before proceeding in the script.
There are four main looping structures in PowerShell. These looping structures include Do/While
, Do/Until
, ForEach
, and For
. The Do/While
looping structure is used to execute a task when a value doesn't equal a specific value. The inverse of this looping structure is Do/Until
, where it will keep looping the structure until a value equals a specific value. ForEach
is a looping structure that allows you to process each individual object in an array or set of objects. The For
loop is typically used to execute a task a set number of times.
To create a new Do/While
looping structure, you first start by declaring the...