pipes and foreach loops

Question

Recently, I\'ve been playing with PowerShell, and I\'ve noticed some weird behavior when using pipes and foreach loops that I couldn\'t understand.

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Answer 1

You need to evaluate the foreach before piping the resulting Object like you did in the first test:

$(foreach ($i in gci){$i.length}) | measure -max

Alternatively, use the % shorthand to which will evaluate it before piping it as well:

gci | % { $_.Length } | measure -max