read elements of an array simultaneously

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Hi All,I am PS newbie (though have worked on other languages). Is there a way we can read elements of an array simultaneously rather than iterating through a foreach loop. I have an array ("A" , "B" , "C" , "D"), instead of iterating like foreach ($x in $array) { print $x}, is it possible that I pull our all simultaneously

rahulruns · Answer

Thank you for your reply, I will try to be clearer on what I intent to do.&nbsp; $testarray (with join it will have field separators) will print array but will not help me do a simultaneous operation on all elements of an array. What I wrote is just sample where if I replace print statement with anything else it should work on all elements simultaneously

vasilmichev · Answer

What exactly are you trying to do?

kevin_morgan · Answer

For&nbsp;this&nbsp;case, you have to use asynchronous function call. I think you can do it by using Start-Job.$function = {param($a)Write-Host $a}$testarray = ("a", "b", "c", "d")$testarray | ForEach-Object {Start-Job -ScriptBlock $function -ArgumentList $_}#Run below command to remove jobs and get resultGet-Job | % { Receive-Job $_.Id; Remove-Job $_.Id }You can also explore how to achieve this from below threads.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12766174/how-to-execute-a-powershell-function-several-times-in-parallelhttps://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2016/06/20/parallel-processing-with-powershell/Hopefully VasilMichev&nbsp;know more about this requirement.

vasilmichev · Answer

Not sure exactly what you mean, you can get all the elements by simply referencing the array variable? Or use something like $testarray.GetEnumerator()&nbsp;or $testarray.Split().