It is because the continue gets applied to the outer foreach loop and not the foreach-object cmdlet. In absence of a loop, the outermost level, hence giving you an impression of it acting like break.

Dec 7, 2011 · 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:

Apr 26, 2013 · The issue here is once an exception occurs it stops executing, I used continue in the catch block but that did not work. How do I get it working even after an exception occurs it should …

Oct 16, 2014 · Continue while from nested for-loop Asked 11 years, 5 months ago Modified 9 years, 3 months ago Viewed 10k times

First of all, Foreach-Object is not an actual loop and calling break in it will cancel the whole script rather than skipping to the statement after it. Conversely, break and continue will work as you expect in an …

Oct 7, 2020 · If the WMI errors are due to a connection fail, they will occur before any of the nics are processed. If you want to catch them, and then continue with the next computer, you have to move …

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,t.ps1 So, skips Write-Host OK, but also seems to continue to loop. In other words, it acts like 'Continue' statement. …

Dec 15, 2023 · As with continue, break only meaningfully works with a select few language statements - used outside such a context, PowerShell looks up the call stack for an enclosing loop / switch …

Reverse the test in the inner loop, and use Continue to keep the loop going until the test fails. As soon as it gets a hit, it will break the inner loop, and go back to the next object in the outer loop.

Jan 6, 2019 · Return to top of a program loop, skip just this iteration of the loop. In a For, ForEach or While loop you can add a continue statement to jump to the top of the innermost loop.