false variable is assigned but never used recommendation (same as ticket #1354)
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- tooling
Research direction
The issue names no repository files, tests, or entry points. Reproduce the warning with the provided PowerShell snippets, then compare the existing handling of PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments with ticket #1354. Done means both examples no longer emit the warning.
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Description
False report about unused variable
Steps to reproduce
$modified = $false
$source | ForEach-Object {
if ($_.LocalName -eq 'key') {
$modified = $true
}
}
return $modified
Another case:
$modified = $false
$source | ForEach-Object {
if ($_.LocalName -eq 'key') {
$modified = $true
}
}
if($modified) {
}
Expected behavior
No warning
Actual behavior
Warning:
The variable 'modified' is assigned but never used.PSScriptAnalyzer(PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments)
Warning is present since long time ago
Environment data
> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 7.5.1
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.5.1
OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0
> (Get-Module -ListAvailable PSScriptAnalyzer).Version | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString() }
1.23.0
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