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removing Users from an AD group - set a limit on how many can be removed

Hi EE

Subsun helped me with this script yesterday on adding users to a group . I modified it to remove users from a group but
wanted to see if there was a way to limit the amount of users the script can remove  ?

So the users.txt file will be filled in by an application owner .. his group containts 1000's of users .. I dont want for him to
accidentally put 1000's of users to remove by mistake .. I want for the script to only remove lets say 100 users even if the
Users.txt file has 10000 SamAccountnames listed .

Any ideas ?

$(Foreach ($User in GC \\Servername\Share\Users.txt){
GC C:\PS\groups.txt | % {
   $Group = $_
   #using try catch to capture the errors
   Try{
        Remove-ADGroupmember -identity $Group -member $User -ea stop
      #create custom PS object to output the command status..
        New-Object PSObject -Property @{
      GroupName = $Group
      User = $User
      Status = "Success"
      }
    }Catch{
      New-Object PSObject -Property @{
      GroupName = $Group
      User = $User
      Status = "Failed"
      }      
     }
   }
}) | export-csv "C:\PS\RemovedFromgroup_$((Get-Date -Format MM-dd-yyyy-hhmmss)).csv" -NoTypeInformation
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that was it footech !! thanks so much
Forgot to close this ..thank you !