Parameter as an option

Hi All,

I’m writing a small function, which lists some server names from a XML file.
While doing this it uses test-connection to check if the server is online or not.

This can be useful at times, it can take to long other times.

So I thought I make a parameter “-nc”  (no check) when I just need to have a list of available servers.

I made this small test script


param($nc)

Write-Host "arg1: $nc"

if ($nc)
{ "yep i see the nc"}


When I call it like this “testthis.ps1 –nc x” it works as expected

When I call it like this “testthis.ps1 –nc” it gives me the error that I need to supply an argument for the parameter.

So basically I want –nc to behave like on on/off switch (like –nonewline does for write-host) and not to behave like a parameter.

Any ideas?