{"id":72092,"date":"2015-07-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/17\/powertip-set-powershell-breakpoint-based-on-variable\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:57","slug":"powertip-set-powershell-breakpoint-based-on-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-set-powershell-breakpoint-based-on-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Set PowerShell Breakpoint Based on Variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Set a Windows PowerShell breakpoint based on a variable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I enter the Windows PowerShell debugger when a particular variable is accessed in a specific <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell script?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Set a breakpoint and specify a particular variable and script, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Set-PSBreakpoint -Variable num -Mode write -Script C:\\FSO\\BadScript.ps1<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Set a Windows PowerShell breakpoint based on a variable. &nbsp;How can I enter the Windows PowerShell debugger when a particular variable is accessed in a specific &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell script? &nbsp;Set a breakpoint and specify a particular variable and script, for example: Set-PSBreakpoint -Variable num -Mode write -Script C:\\FSO\\BadScript.ps1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-72092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Set a Windows PowerShell breakpoint based on a variable. &nbsp;How can I enter the Windows PowerShell debugger when a particular variable is accessed in a specific &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell script? &nbsp;Set a breakpoint and specify a particular variable and script, for example: Set-PSBreakpoint -Variable num -Mode write -Script C:\\FSO\\BadScript.ps1<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}