PowerShell: Incremental Counter in Foreach Loop

Question

I have a foreach loop that iterates over an Array and calls a function which also has another foreach loop inside with an incremental counter, however it doesn't seem to be working as expected?

Array contents:

| Username | Username2 |
|----------|-----------|
| p1       | p2        |
| p3       | p4        |

Code:

function insertIntoLunchJobs($arrayOfRows) {
    $counter = 1

    foreach ($i in $arrayOfRows) {
        $i
        $counter++
        $counter
    }
}

Output:


| Username | Username2 |
|----------|-----------|
| p1       | p2        |
| 2        |           |
| p3       | p4        |
| 2        |           |

Desired result:


| Username | Username2 |
|----------|-----------|
| p1       | p2        |
| 2        |           |
| p3       | p4        |
| 3        |           |

Any ideas?

TIA

You want to do a for loop.

Abraham Zinala
– Abraham Zinala

2021-03-19 02:43:48 +00:00
Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 2:43 — Abraham Zinala
– Abraham Zinala, Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 2:43
Thanks @AbrahamZinala do you know how I can construct that?

yush
– yush

2021-03-19 02:45:22 +00:00
Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 2:45 — yush
– yush, Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 2:45

Santiago Squarzon · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-19 03:08:59Z

2

I'm literally copy pasting your code. I don't see any errors here:

$arr=@'
Username,Username2
p1,p2
p3,p4
'@|ConvertFrom-Csv

function insertIntoLunchJobs($arrayOfRows) {
    $counter = 1

    foreach ($i in $arrayOfRows) {
        $i
        $counter++
        $counter
    }
}

insertIntoLunchJobs -arrayOfRows $arr

answered Mar 19, 2021 at 3:08

Santiago Squarzon

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yush Over a year ago

Thanks mate, I actually logically had an issue. Basically I did a foreach loop over $arr and then called the insertIntoLunchJobs function. Thanks for your help

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