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 ...

A CSV downloaded from Google Sheets via 'File → Download → Comma separated values (.csv)'. When opened in Excel, the headings became unreadable characters like '逡ｪ蜿ｷ'. In this case, the file is not ...

If you don’t know what CSV stands for, stop right here. It stands for “comma-separated values” and is a funny, least-common-denominator format used to pass field-based data in rows—tabular ...

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 ...

Have you ever experienced opening a CSV file exported from a core system or e-commerce management screen in Excel, only to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Visual Basic 6 language uses file handlers to write data to a CSV file, which is a text file that separates values using the comma character. The CSV file format lets you export and import data ...

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 ...