Syntax errors before running power shell

Question

Is there a way that we get compile time errors before actually running the script in powershel
SQL Server is kind enough to provide us Parse option in SSMS to get the errors before actually running the code
MLC

Answer 1

Nothing built-in to PowerShell can do this. If you want something simple, you could use the PSParser to look for anything that might be wrong with the syntax, but wouldn't do anything advanced like check for invalid commands.
$script = (Get-Content test.ps1)
$errors = [System.Management.Automation.PSParseError[]] @()
$tokens = [Management.Automation.PsParser]::Tokenize($script, [ref] $errors)
#Show errors found
$Errors
For something more advanced you would need to roll your own script checker using this or if running V3 and above, the AST methods. You could also look at using something like
ScriptCop.
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