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Assignment of $NULL to a BOOL variable does not work
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Steps to reproduce
[BOOL] $X = $NULL
Expected behavior
-NOT $X
Actual behavior
MetadataError
Error details
Cannot convert value "" to type "System.Boolean". Boolean parameters accept only Boolean values and numbers, such as $True, $False, 1 or 0.
Environment data
System.Management.Automation.PSVersionHashTable
Visuals
No response
Issue Analytics
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- Created 2 years ago
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- Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)
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No. In pwsh 7.1.5 and in powershell 5.1 there are not any errors:
No, this is not a regression. It’s the same behavior on PowerShell 7.1.x and even Windows PowerShell 5.1