continue statement confusing in powershell, looks like break statement

Question

My code looks like:

1..10 | % {
    $i=$_
    10..20 | % {
        if ($_ -gt 12) {
            continue
        }
       Write-Host $i $_
    }
}

Why the output is:

1 10
1 11
1 12

It seems the continue statement in PoweShell is not different with other language, why PowerShell is designed like this?

If I change the continue to return, then I get the expect result.

Possible duplicate of [Why does continue behave like break in a Foreach-Object?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7760013/why-does-continue-behave-like-break-in-a-foreach-object) — Loïc MICHEL, Jun 13 '16 at 05:30

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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As PeterSerAI pointed out in his comment, you don't use a loop in your code, you are instead using the Foreach-Object cmdlet which is different.

Just use a foreach loop instead:

foreach($obj in 1.. 10)
{
    $i = $obj
    foreach($obj2 in 10 ..20) {
        if ($obj2 -gt 12) {
            continue
        }
       Write-Host $obj $obj2
    }
}

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Jun 13 '16 at 05:14

Martin Brandl

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