Votes from Connect: 3

Original Date Submitted: 9/16/2014 12:15:09 AM

Description:
Contact Information
Handle: Aaron Jensen
Site Name: PowerShell
Feedback ID: 972566

Frequency: Always Happens
Regression: Yes, this happens in previous released versions

Problem Description:
When you catch exceptions, those exception still appear in the global $Error list. I expect that caught exceptions shouldn't appear there because I'm catching and handling them. We have build pipelines that fail builds if there are any errors in the global $Error variable, and this causes false failures in situations where we are handling the exceptions.

$Error.Clear()
try
{

 throw 'Blarg!'

}
catch
{

# Caught and handled, Captain!

}

$Error

Note that $Error contains the caught Blarg exception.

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Repro Steps:
$Error.Clear()
try
{

 throw 'Blarg!'

}
catch
{
}

$Error

Note that $Error contains the Blarg exception that I caught.

Expected Results:
I would expect the $Error variable to be empty, since I caught and handled the error.

Internal BugId: 11002