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 ...

If you spend any time with spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets — or even import certain kinds of data into Microsoft Outlook — you will inevitably encounter a ...

If you often use a computer for work, you've probably encountered some .csv files as part of your daily grind. On the surface, they may seem like a strange alternative to the far more well-known .xlsx ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...

Sometimes you just need a quick means of converting a spreadsheet to a comma-separated values file. When you don’t have a GUI to take care of the task, Jack Wallen has the perfect command for the job.

Writing to files is one of the most important things you will learn in any new programming language. This allows you to save user data for future reference, to manipulate large data sets, or to build ...

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 ...