helo,
I'm annoyed with what seems to me a strange behaviour of the foreach-object block.
When using the following code in the shell
".dir", $null, ".pdf" | Foreach-object (Write-host "Hello within ()") {"begin scriptblock within {}"} {"process scriptblock within {}"} {"end scriptblock within {}"} (write-host " last block in line within ()")

I obtain this result:

Hello within ()
 last block in line within ()
 begin scriptblock within {}
 process scriptblock within {}
 process scriptblock within {}
 process scriptblock within {}
 end scriptblock within {}

I have no problems with everything in the {} scriptblocks.
But I do not understand why the instructions in ( ) are not considered as errors and why the last block with ( )
is executed before the scriptblocks.

The question arises because I try to find out how to interpret correctly the syntax rules returned by the get-help.

I am not familiar with the "within"...

But the Syntax for ForEach-Object looks more like this...


$array = ".dir", $null, ".pdf"
$array | ForEach-Object{
$_
}


ForEach-Object handles each object 1 at a time "$_" means "The current pipeline object".

So, What ever your code ends up looking like you will have to use $_ inside of ForEach-Object also you need to use the "{}" brackets.

Just to followup on what Jedi had to say, essentially you are doing something contrary to how the documentation says to use the cmdlet.

You might want to do a google/bing search for ForEach-Object Examples