Vista - How can I tell my own function's name to call myself recursively?

How do I get my function to call itself recursively.

I suppose I could just hard-code my name in the function but I'm not
sure that covers all cases.
For example

function Foo {.... ;foo -depth $d}

function Bar { function foo{something}
if ($x){foo}else{global:foo}}

On Aug 12, 3:02*pm, RickB <rbiel...@xxxxxx> wrote:I haven't found a good way to get the name of the currently running
function, but I can tell you that using the function name inside of
the function definition works just fine for recursive functions.

For example, this function below uses its own name to recursively name
all files under a specific path

# Recurse($path, $fileglob)
#
# Recurses through a psdrive and prints all items that match.
#
# Args:
# [string]$path: The starting path
# [string]$fileglob(optional): The search string for matching files
#
function Recurse ([string]$path, [string]$fileglob){
if (-not (Test-Path $path)) {
Write-Error "$path is an invalid path."
return $false
}

$files = @(dir -Path $path -Include $fileglob)

foreach ($file in $files) {
if ($file.GetType().FullName -eq 'System.IO.FileInfo') {
Write-Output $file.FullName
}elseif ($file.GetType().FullName -eq 'System.IO.DirectoryInfo') {
Recurse $file.FullName
}
}
}

On Aug 13, 12:55*am, Shay Levy [MVP] <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:Sweet. I was trying to figure it out, and I knew it had something to
do with myinvocation. What about the second part, though? Is there
an advantage using that vs. just using the name for the purposes of
recursion?

Get the name of the currently running function:

function foo{ "function name: " + $myinvocation.InvocationName }



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Shay Levy
Windows PowerShell MVP
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ScriptFanatic



R> How do I get my function to call itself recursively.
R>
R> I suppose I could just hard-code my name in the function but I'm not
R> sure that covers all cases.
R> For example
R> function Foo {.... ;foo -depth $d}
R>
R> function Bar { function foo{something}
R> if ($x){foo}else{global:foo}}

I'm not sure there's any advantage except for when you change your function
name and don't update the change in your inner call.


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Shay Levy
Windows PowerShell MVP
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ScriptFanatic

t> On Aug 13, 12:55 am, Shay Levy [MVP] <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:
t>t> Sweet. I was trying to figure it out, and I knew it had something to
t> do with myinvocation. What about the second part, though? Is there
t> an advantage using that vs. just using the name for the purposes of
t> recursion?
t>