Writing a basic looping construct

Automation is perhaps only half-complete without loops. After all, the point of automation in most situations is making the computer do what is repetitive. There are six looping constructs in PowerShell in all:

• Looping using Foreach-Object
• The Foreach loop
• The For loop
• The While loop
• The Do–While loop
• The Do-Until loop

The Foreach-Object looping construct is perhaps the simplest of them all.

Let's imagine that we have a list of five guests to a certain event, and you would like to greet them each individually.

How to do it...

Let's assume that the guests are Mr Jain, Mr Jacobs, Ms Sanders, Mr Shah, and Mr Hugo:

1. Open a new file in Visual Studio Code and, in the script pane...