How to Write Conditional Statements in Windows PowerShell
Sometimes it is required to write conditional statements in Windows PowerShell. Windows PowerShell supports following two conditional constructs.
If Statements
To write an If statement use code similar to this:
$a = "white"
if ($a -eq "red")
{"The color is red."}
elseif ($a -eq "white")
{"The color is white."}
else
{"The color is blue."}
Instead of writing a series of If statements you can use a Switch statement, which is equivalent to VBScript’s Select Case statement:
$a = 2
switch ($a)
{
1 {"The color is red."}
2 {"The color is blue."}
3 {"The color is green."}
4 {"The color is yellow."}
default {"Other."}
}
