{"id":5116,"date":"2012-08-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/08\/16\/powertip-adding-a-default-exit-to-a-powershell-switch\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-adding-a-default-exit-to-a-powershell-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-adding-a-default-exit-to-a-powershell-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Adding a Default Exit to a PowerShell Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to add a default exit condition to a Windows PowerShell switch <\/i><\/strong>statement to control execution of commands.<\/p>\n

\"Hey,I have the following switch statement, and I want to prevent the line Write-Host<\/b> “switched”<\/b> from executing? How can I do this?<\/p>\n

$a = 3<\/p>\n

switch ($a) {<\/p>\n

 1 { “one detected” }<\/p>\n

 2 { “two detected” }<\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

Write-Host “switched”<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Add an exit statement to the default switch as shown here:<\/p>\n

$a = 3<\/p>\n

switch ($a) {<\/p>\n

1 { “one detected” }<\/p>\n

2 { “two detected”}<\/p>\n

DEFAULT { exit}<\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

Write-Host “switched <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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