Can I use two sets of variables in one foreach loop? - foreach

Question

Is is possible to construct one single foreach loop that loops through using two separate sets of variables?
Below is a simplified example of what I'm trying to do - except this example lists two separate loops whereas I would like to set them up in one single loop.
$Sites = #("https://www.google.com" , "https://duckduckgo.com")
$Site_names = #( "Google" , "DuckDuckGO")
foreach ($element in $Sites) {
Write-Host "`n`n"
$element
Write-Host "`n`n"
}
foreach ($name in $Site_names) {
Write-Host "`n`n"
$name
Write-Host "`n`n"
}
There is other code to be used so the loop needs to be able to allow for multiple lines of code in the code block - so a single line solution if there is one isn't what I'm after. Also I didn't think using the pipeline would be workable (but I could certainly be wrong on that).
Two sets of variables: $Sites and $Site_names.
I would like one foreach loop that runs through and lists the site address and the site name with both values changing each time the loop is run.
First run: reference the URL "https://www.google.com" and the site name "Google".
Second run: reference the URL "https://duckduckgo.com" and the site name "DuckDuckGo".
Is this possible?

Answer 1

If you have two arrays of the same size you can simply use a for loop like this:
for ($i=0; $i -lt $Sites.Count; $i++) {
"{0}`t{1}" -f $Site_names[$i], $Sites[$i]
}
However, if the elements of your two arrays are correlated anyway, it would be better to use a hashtable instead:
$Sites = #{
'Google' = 'https://www.google.com'
'DuckDuckGo' = 'https://duckduckgo.com'
}
foreach ($name in $Sites.Keys) {
"{0}`t{1}" -f $name, $Sites[$name]
}