Call Powershell function from within for loop

Question

I have written 5 functions as:

Function Task_1 {
‪#‎todo‬ 
}

Function Task_2 {
#todo 
}

likewise.

Now I want to call those function one by one from within a for loop as:

for($i=1; $i -le 5; $i++){
Write-Host Executing Task $i;
Task_$i;
}

When I run this, I get output & error as:

Executing Task 1

The term 'Task_$i' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

What's going wrong? Solution please!

Russ Clarke · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-26 12:31:45Z

3

Task_$i isn't the name of a function, it's just a string.

You can try using an & first:

&Task_$i

Or to be more literal:

invoke-expression Task_$i

answered Dec 26, 2015 at 12:31

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