else: The term ‘else’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

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Error: powershell else: The term ‘else’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

vscode gave me this error. When i researched this i found out it was caused because of the if else statement was on several lines. So After 

If () {

#something

}
else
{

#The bracket is on a different line then the "else" statment. This will break the script. 

}

If (){
   #something
}else{
   #this will NOT break
}

I have searched the web and tried several things. When i removed PSreadline module and installed the laters version (2.0.2) It was solved. I needed to remove the PSReadline directory in the module folder. The long story here on Stackoverflow.




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