How to exit from ForEach-Object in PowerShell

Question

I have the following code:

$project.PropertyGroup | Foreach-Object {
    if($_.GetAttribute(\'Condition\').Trim() -eq $propertyGroupConditionName.Trim()) {
           


        

Answer 1

There are differences between foreach and foreach-object.

A very good description you can find here: MS-ScriptingGuy

For testing in PS, here you have scripts to show the difference.

ForEach-Object:

# Omit 5.
1..10 | ForEach-Object {
if ($_ -eq 5) {return}
# if ($_ -ge 5) {return} # Omit from 5.
Write-Host $_
}
write-host "after1"

# Cancels whole script at 15, "after2" not printed.
11..20 | ForEach-Object {
if ($_ -eq 15) {continue}
Write-Host $_
}
write-host "after2"

# Cancels whole script at 25, "after3" not printed.
21..30 | ForEach-Object {
if ($_ -eq 25) {break}
Write-Host $_
}
write-host "after3"

foreach

# Ends foreach at 5.
foreach ($number1 in (1..10)) {
if ($number1 -eq 5) {break}
Write-Host "$number1"
}
write-host "after1"

# Omit 15. 
foreach ($number2 in (11..20)) {
if ($number2 -eq 15) {continue}
Write-Host "$number2"
}
write-host "after2"

# Cancels whole script at 25, "after3" not printed.
foreach ($number3 in (21..30)) {
if ($number3 -eq 25) {return}
Write-Host "$number3"
}
write-host "after3"