Updating hash table values in a 'foreach' loop in PowerShell

Question

I\'m trying to loop through a hash table and set the value of each key to 5 and PowerShell gives an error:

$myHash = @{}
$myHash[\"a\"] = 1
$myHash[\"b\"] =          


        

Answer 1

You do not need to clone the whole hashtable for this example. Just enumerating the key collection by forcing it to an array @(...) is enough:

foreach($key in @($myHash.keys)) {...