Redmond Magazine

How To Use .CSV Files with PowerShell, Part 2

In the second part of this series, Brien shows how to import a .CSV file into a PowerShell array, including two methods for zooming in on just the specific data you need and filtering out the rest. In ...
MCPmag

Creating CSV Files with PowerShell

Storing data in a structured way is important when that data will be read by a computer. One of the easiest ways to put data into an easy-to-read format is with a comma-separated value (CSV) file. A ...
MCPmag

How To Process Multiple CSV Files at Once in PowerShell

Each of these CSV files has four columns: FirstName,LastName,Title,HireDate. At the end of each month, management wants a report of who was hired that month. To find this information, you must read ...
Ars Technica

Powershell v1. Find the number of columns in a two dimensional array

I'm making a script that will write a two-dimensional array to an Excel spreadsheet. The script is meant to be called from within other scripts. An outer loop runs once for every row in the array. An ...
Redmond Magazine

How To Use .CSV Files with PowerShell, Part 1

Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...