TOPIC about_Reserved_Words SHORT DESCRIPTION Lists the reserved words that cannot be used as identifiers because they have

a special meaning in Windows PowerShell. LONG DESCRIPTION There are certain words that have special meaning in Windows PowerShell. When these words appear without quotation marks, Windows PowerShell attempts to apply their special meaning rather than treating them as character strings. To use these words as parameter arguments in a command or script without invoking their special meaning, enclose the reserved words in quotation marks. The following are the reserved words in Windows PowerShell: Break Continue Do Else Elseif Filter For Foreach Function If In Local Private Return Switch Until Where While For information about language statements, such as Foreach, If, For, and While, type "get-help", type the prefix "about_", and then type the name of the statement. For example, to get information about the Foreach statement, type: get-help about_foreach For information about the Filter statement or the Return statement syntax, type: get-help about_functions SEE ALSO about_Command_Syntax about_Escape_Characters about_Language_Keywords about_Parsing about_Quoting_Rules about_Script_Blocks about_Special_Characters