Go to next item in ForEach-Object

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

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, ...).


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.

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