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

$myHash = @{
    Americas = 0;
    Asia = 0;
    Europe = 0;
}

$countries = @("Americas", "Asia", "Europe", "Americas", "Asia")

foreach($key in $($myHash.Keys))
{
    foreach($Country in $countries)
    {
        if($key -eq $Country)
        {
            $myHash[$key] += 1
        }
    }
}

Updating a hash value if array elements matched with a hash key.