trying out foreach-object - need explaination

Hey there,

First question is why is it returning “False” and the “else” to the screen.

As I see its returning true/false if the object passed includes “svchost” so I tried to create a if statement, but it doesn’t work, what am I doing wrong there. Also if anyone asks why am I doing this, its because I trying to understand the logic of the ForEach statement and what it’s used for.

Get-Process | ForEach-Object {($_.Name -in "svchost")

 if ($_.Name -eq "True") {
 
 Write-Host "Testtttt"
 }
 
 {

else "Noppppe"

}

}

Getting the following output (small example).

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

else “Nope”

False

False

else “Nope”

False

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As for …

because I trying to understand the logic of the ForEach statement and what it's used for.

… Loops are not unique to PowerShell, it has been around in programming since the beginning of programming. All languages use this as well as on looping structures. This is well documented in every place on the web, books and courseware.

For Loop

A “For” Loop is used to repeat a specific block of code a known number of times. For example, if we want to check the grade of every student in the class, we loop from 1 to that number. When the number of times is not known before hand, we use a “While” loop.

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What you need to know about foreach loops in PowerShell

If you’re familiar with common coding practices, you’re probably also familiar with a foreach loop. A foreach loop is a simple language construct that enables you to iterate through a set of items in a collection or array. Every programming language has foreach loops, and they all tend to behave in the same way. PowerShell, on the other hand-with its pipeline, built-in cmdlets, and use of aliases-sometimes trips up newbies.

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PowerShell Loops

Table of Contents
ForEach-Object
For
While
Do while
Do Until
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PowerShell Tutorial – Loops (For, ForEach, While, Do-While, Do-Until)

ForEach Loop

The foreach statement is very useful in PowerShell when you need to loop through an array or loop through items in an object.

ForEach allows the loop to evaluate the number a certain type of objects in an array or parent object and loop through those objects. One thing to bear in mind is that a ForEach loop is that there is a performance penalty for this convenience.

The below example, shows a ForEach Loop operating on a object, the code assigns the object resulting from the Get-process cmdlet to a variable, and then iterates through the process items in the object and displays the process name.

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    $Processes=get-process | select-object ProcessName

    $i=1

    foreach ($process in $Processes)
    {write-host $i "Process Name is " $process.Processname;$i++; }

You also need a better understanding of the comparison operators.
That’-in’ is used in looking at a collection, and your post is only a simply string. There is nothing in simple string other that the characters.

About Comparison Operators

Comparison operators let you specify conditions for comparing values and finding values that match specified patterns. To use a comparison operator, specify the values that you want to compare together with an operator that separates these values.

about Comparison Operators - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn

ForEach-Object runs its script block once for each object you send it. The “$_” automatic variable represents the current object.

Get-Process | ForEach-Object {

    If   ( $_.Name -EQ 'svchost' ) { Write-Host 'Coool!' }
    Else                           { Write-Host 'Uncool' }
}