foreach loop doesn't execute the variable - powershell

Question

I wrote a few lines of code to check if a port is open or not:
$ports = #(5353,5672,8080,4443,15672,9200)
foreach ($port in $ports)
{
TNC -ComputerName localhost -Port $port -InformationLevel Quiet -WarningAction SilentlyContinue | Tee-Object -Variable CheckPortStatus > $null
if ($CheckPortStatus -eq "True")
{$status = Write-Host "Open" -ForegroundColor GREEN}
else
{$status = Write-Host "close" -ForegroundColor RED}
echo "the port is $status"
I don't get why the output is this:
The script actually works but it execute the variable when declared and then it doesn't use the variable after the if/else

Answer 1

The Write-Host cmdlet just prints something to the console, it doesn't return anything so you can't assign it to $status. Instead you should do something like this:
$ports = #(5353,5672,8080,4443,15672,9200)
foreach ($port in $ports)
{
TNC -ComputerName localhost -Port $port -InformationLevel Quiet -WarningAction SilentlyContinue | Tee-Object -Variable CheckPortStatus > $null
if ($CheckPortStatus -eq "True")
{
$status = "Open"
Write-Host $status -ForegroundColor GREEN
}
else
{
$status = "Closed"
Write-Host $status -ForegroundColor RED
}
Write-Host "the port is $status"
}
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When you are writing or reviewing PowerShell scripts, I’d like you to
remember the following rule of thumb:
Using Write-Host is almost always wrong.