Windows PowerShell™ Scripting Guide

Formatting Your Code

Screen space should be conserved as much as possible while still allowing code formatting to reflect logic structure and nesting. Here are a few suggestions:

• Indent standard nested blocks two spaces.

• Block overview comments for a function. Block the highest level statements, with each nested block indented an additional two spaces.

• You must line up curly brackets. This makes it easier to follow the code flow.

• Avoid single-line statements. In addition to making it easier to follow the flow of the code, this also makes it easier when you search for a missing curly bracket.

• Break each pipelined object at the pipe. Leave all pipes on the right.

• Avoid line continuation—the grave accent (backtick or `). The exception here is when it would ...