A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of ...

The CSV file extension appears on text documents that contain comma-separated values. Like spreadsheet data, each line in a CSV file separates into individual values that correspond with the cells in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a real puzzler. I have a client who retrieves daily reports via their intranet website. These reports are generally CSV files, and the user clicks a link directly to the file. Clicking these ...

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 ...