Updating hash table values in a 'foreach' loop in PowerShell

Question

I\'m trying to loop through a hash table and set the value of each key to 5 and PowerShell gives an error:

$myHash = @{}
$myHash[\"a\"] = 1
$myHash[\"b\"] =          


        

Answer 1

It seems when you update the hash table inside the foreach loop, the enumerator invalidates itself. I got around this by populating a new hash table:

$myHash = @{}
$myHash["a"] = 1
$myHash["b"] = 2
$myHash["c"] = 3

$newHash = @{}
foreach($key in $myHash.keys){
    $newHash[$key] = 5
}
$myHash = $newHash