I am doing data output to csv file via powershell. Generally things goes well.
I have exported the data to csv file. It contains about 10 columns. When I open it with MS Excel it's all contained in first column. I want to split it by several columns programmatically via powershell(same GUI version offers). I could make looping and stuff to split the every row and then put values to appropriate cell but then it would take way too much time.
I believe there should be an elegant solution to make one column split to multiple. Is there a way to make it in one simple step without looping?
This is what I came up with so far:
PS, The CSV file is 100% FINE. The delimiter is ','
Get-Service | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation c:\1.csv -Encoding UTF8
$xl = New-Object -comobject Excel.Application
$xl.Visible = $true
$xl.DisplayAlerts = $False
$wb = $xl.Workbooks.Open('c:\1.csv')
$ws = $wb.Sheets|?{$_.name -eq '1'}
$ws.Activate()
$col = $ws.Cells.Item(1,1).EntireColumn
This will get you the desired functionality; add to your code. Check out the MSDN page for more information on TextToColumns.
# Select column
$columnA = $ws.Range("A1").EntireColumn
# Enumerations
$xlDelimited = 1
$xlTextQualifier = 1
# Convert Text To Columns
$columnA.texttocolumns($ws.Range("A1"),$xlDelimited,$xlTextQualifier,$true,$false,$false,$true,$false)
$ws.columns.autofit()
I had to create a CSV which had "","" as delimiter to test this out. The file with "," was fine in excel.
# Opens with all fields in column A, used to test TextToColumns works
"Name,""field1"",""field2"",""field3"""
"Test,""field1"",""field.2[]"",""field3"""
# Opens fine in Excel
Name,"field1","field2","field3"
Test,"field1","field.2[]","field3"
Disclaimer: Tested with $ws = $wb.Worksheets.item(1)
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I am trying to automate the following manual task, and am struggling with part of it:
1) Open a text file that contains multiple lines containing data.
2) Copy the contents of this file to the clipboard.
3) Open and Excel spreadsheet.
4) Rename the spreadsheet to Test.
5) Paste the contents of the clipboard.
When this is done manually the content is pasted and each line in the text file is inserted as a new row in column A.
Originally the customer wanted all of the file content to be injected into cell A1. I was able to achieve this with the below PowerShell code.
However they have since changed this back to wanting each line of text to go into a separate row in column A.
I cannot figure out how to do this gracefully via the Get-Content method of copying out the text data. I have seen workarounds to this issue whereby Excel opens the text file and copies the text into an intermediate workbook and then into the final workbook.
Could someone please let me know if it's possible to amend my already working code below so that it adds the text to rows in column A rather than to cell A1?
# Clear the screen of any previous text.
cls
$ExcelFile="C:\Users\User\Desktop\Test\Test.xlsx"
$TextFile="C:\Users\User\Desktop\Test\TestText.txt"
$Content = Get-Content $TextFile -Raw
# Perform operations in Excel based on content of the downloaded file.
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
# For troubleshooting enable the below to view Excel as file is manipulated:
#$Excel.Visible=$true
# Disable Excel alerts. Hash this line out for troubleshooting.
$Excel.DisplayAlerts = $false
# Set up workbook...
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Add()
$Data = $Workbook.Worksheets.Item(1)
$Data.Name = 'Test'
# Insert Data
$Data.Cells.Item(1,1) = "$Content"
# Format, save and quit excel
$UsedRange = $Data.UsedRange
$UsedRange.EntireColumn.AutoFit() | Out-Null
$Workbook.SaveAs("$ExcelFile")
$Excel.Quit()
I know that the part I would need to change is as follows, but I'm not sure what to change it to:
# Insert Data
$Data.Cells.Item(1,1) = "$Content"
Many thanks in advance.
To do this, you need to find the last used row in the sheet and write each line from there:
$ExcelFile = "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Test\Test.xlsx"
$TextFile = "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Test\TestText.txt"
# Perform operations in Excel based on content of the downloaded file.
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.Visible = $false
$Excel.DisplayAlerts = $false
# open the file and select the first worksheet
$WorkBook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($ExcelFile)
$WorkSheet = $Workbook.Worksheets.Item(1)
# get the first unused row
$row = ($WorkSheet.UsedRange.Rows).Count + 1
# fill in the data
Get-Content -Path $TextFile | ForEach-Object {
$WorkSheet.Cells.Item($row++, 1) = $_
}
# format column A and save the file
$UsedRange = $WorkSheet.UsedRange
$UsedRange.EntireColumn.AutoFit() | Out-Null
$WorkBook.Save()
# quit excel and clean up the used COM objects
$Excel.Quit()
$null = [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($WorkSheet)
$null = [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($WorkBook)
$null = [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($Excel)
[System.GC]::Collect()
[System.GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
I think the solution would be to read each line in content by for or foreach loop
in loop, write the line's content into the last row of column A in the excel file.
It's will be something like this
foreach($line in $Content){
$Data.Cells.Item($LastRow,1) = $line
}
I have this excel sheets and I want to have the same format for csv files. Could some one help me with a automation script please (to convert multiple excel sheets to csv files)??
I tried this script, but the 16th digit of the card number is turning to be zero as excel can read only 15 digits right. Can we modify this code to convert multiple excel sheets to csv files?
Could someone help me with this.
Convert Excel file to CSV
$xlCSV=6
$Excelfilename = “C:\Temp\file.xlsx”
$CSVfilename = “C:\Temp\file.csv”
$Excel = New-Object -comobject Excel.Application
$Excel.Visible = $False
$Excel.displayalerts=$False
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($ExcelFileName)
$Workbook.SaveAs($CSVfilename,$xlCSV)
$Excel.Quit()
If(ps excel){kill -name excel}
Excel is really particular in its handling of CSV files..
Although the 16 digit numbers are written out in full when using the SaveAs method, if you re-open it by double-clicking the csv file, Excel screws up these numbers by converting them to numeric values instead of strings.
In order to force Excel to NOT interpret these values and simply regard them as strings, you need to adjust the values in the csv file afterwards, by prefixing them with a TAB character.
(this will make the file useless for other applications..)
Of course, you need to know the correct column header to do this.
Let's assume your Excel file looks like this:
As you can see, the value we need to adjust is stored in column Number
To output csv files on which you can double-click so they are opened in Excel, the code below would do that for you:
$xlCSV = 6
$Excelfiles = 'D:\test.xlsx', 'D:\test2.xlsx' # an array of files to convert
$ColumnName = 'Number' # example, you need to know the column name
# create an Excel COM object
$Excel = New-Object -comobject Excel.Application
$Excel.Visible = $False
$Excel.DisplayAlerts = $False
foreach ($fileName in $Excelfiles) {
$Workbook = $Excel.Workbooks.Open($fileName)
# use the same file name, but change the extension to .csv for output
$CSVfile = [System.IO.Path]::ChangeExtension($fileName, 'csv')
# have Excel save the csv file
$Workbook.SaveAs($CSVfile, $xlCSV)
$Workbook.Close($false)
}
# close excel and clean up the used COM objects
$Excel.Quit()
$null = [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($Workbook)
$null = [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($Excel)
[System.GC]::Collect()
[System.GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
# now import the csv files just created and update the card number
# column by prefixing the value with a TAB character ("`t").
# this will effectively force Excel NOT to interpret the value as numeric.
# you better not do this inside the same loop, because Excel keeps a lock
# on outputted csv files there.
foreach ($fileName in $Excelfiles) {
# use the same file name, but change the extension to .csv for output
$CSVfile = [System.IO.Path]::ChangeExtension($fileName, 'csv')
# the '-UseCulture' switch makes sure the same delimiter character is used
$csv = Import-Csv -Path $CSVfile -UseCulture
foreach ($item in $csv) { $item.$ColumnName = "`t" + $item.$ColumnName }
# re-save the csv file with updates values
$csv | Export-Csv -Path $CSVfile -UseCulture -NoTypeInformation
}
I have this CSV file I generate using Export-CSV. Everything is fine with it but it display like this when opening in Excel because the cells are not formatted as TEXT:
I want to force open the CSV with the cells all set to TEXT like you can do manually with the interface.
Is there a way to automate that with PowerShell, opening the CSV in Excel with cells formatted as text?
There is a little trick you can use - convert your data to html, and save with "xls" extention. For example:
Get-Process | convertto-html | Out-File csv2.xls
You'll see a warning when opening it, just click OK.
You can suppress that warning message by adding extra key in registry:
open regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\Security
Create a new DWORD with name ExtensionHardening and value 0
Found a very good way to make it happen!
After generating your CSV file, here is how to automatically load it into Excel with AutoFit column width and TEXT format for cells :) :
$Fichier = "PATH_TO_CSV.csv"
$objExcel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$WorkBook = $objExcel.Workbooks.Open($Fichier)
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.worksheets.item(1)
$objExcel.Visible = $true
$Range = $worksheet.UsedRange.Cells
$range.NumberFormat = "#"
$WorkSheet.Columns("A:B").AutoFit()
I have an Excel file that I receive and want to process it to a CSV using Powershell.
I have to alter it quite specifically so it can be a reliable input for a program that will process the csv info.
I don't know the exact headers, but i know there can be duplicates.
What I do is open the xlsx file with excel and save it as CSV:
$objExcel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$objExcel.Visible = $True
$objExcel.DisplayAlerts = $True
$Workbook = $objExcel.Workbooks.open($xlsx1)
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item($sheet)
$xlCSV = 6
$Workbook = $objExcel.Workbooks.open($xlsx2)
$WorkSheet = $WorkBook.sheets.item($sheet)
$WorkBook.SaveAs($csv2,$xlCSV)
Now, the XLSX file will have comma's, so first I want to change them to dots.
I tried this, but it's not working:
$objRange = $worksheet.UsedRange
$objRange.Replace ",", "."
It errors out saying: Unexpected token '", "'.
Then when saving I want to set the Delimiter to comma, as it uses ";" standard.
With something like:
$WorkBook.SaveAs($csv2,$xlCSV) -delimiter ","
The last problem is the duplicate headers; this prevents PS to use Import-CSV. Here I tried, when file is separated with a comma it works:
Get-Content $downloads\BBKS_DIR_AUTO_COMMA.csv -totalcount 1 >$downloads\Headers.txt
But then I need to rename de duplicate names like I can have Regio, Regio, Regio.
I want to change this to Regio, Regio2, Regio3
My plan was to lookup the data of the txt, search for duplicates, and then ad an incremental nummer.
In the end I need to add a column with incremental numbers, but always with four numbers, like; 0001, 0002, 0010, 0020, 0200, 1500, I wont exceed 9999. How can this be done?
If you can help me, if only partially I'm very happy.
Further, I'm running Windows 7 x64, Powershell 3.0, Excel 2016 (if relevant)
If easier, its fine to go back to Command prompt for some tasks.
Personally, I wouldn't try and work with Excel sheets via Excel itself and COM - I'd use the excellent module https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel
Then you can import from the sheet straight to a native Powershell object array, and re-export with Export-Csv -Delimiter.
Edit: To answer follow ups :
Once you've loaded the module you can do "Get-Module ImportExcel | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ExportedCommands" to see what it makes available.
To import your Excel in the first place, do something like :
$WorkBook = Import-Excel
And if you need to take care of duplicate column names, you can do :
$WorkBook = Import-Excel -Header #("Regio1", "Regio2", "Regio")
Where the array you pass to -Header needs to include every column you want from the workbook.
I have two CSV files: File1.csv has one column with 4000+ rows. File2.csv has 200 columns with 10000+ rows of content. I want to add the one column in file1.csv as an additional column on File2.csv. I am OK adding it to the end (rightmost) of the existing file. I have found several options online, but none has worked as desire. I can get it done with the Input-CSV cmdlet and adding a Property but that is taking more than ~1 hour to execute. Is there any way to do this without having to convert the CSV content into PSobjects? I have used Get-Content and Set-Content in the past, but that will append one file to the bottom of the other one. Is there any way I could do something similar but appending to the right of the existing file?
Here is the piece of code that has gotten me closer to what I need. The problem with this one is Excel is not saving or closing. Any ideas on how this problem can be solved either by fixing the code below or an easier/more efficient way to do it?
$source = "C:\Users\Desktop\Script_Development\04-16-2015\Bit.csv"
$dest = "C:\Users\Desktop\Script_Development\04-16-2015\MergedwithHeader_04-16-2015.csv"
$Excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $false
$Workbooksource = $excel.Workbooks.open($source)
$Worksheetsource = $Workbooksource.WorkSheets.item("Bit")
$Worksheetsource.activate()
$range = $Worksheetsource.Range("A1").EntireColumn
$range.Copy() | out-null
$Workbookdest = $excel.Workbooks.open($dest)
$Worksheetdest = $Workbookdest.Worksheets.item("MergedwithHeader_04-16-2015")
$Range = $Worksheetdest.Range("FT1")
$Worksheetdest.Paste($range)
$Workbookdest.SaveAs("C:\Users\Desktop\Script_Development\04-16-2015\MergedwithHeader_04-16-2015.xls")
$Excel.quit()
The following code will loop through the lines of a file. You could use this to read each line into an ArrayList.
$FileData = Get-Content "$Filename"
foreach ($i in $FileData)
{
DoSomethingWithLine($i)
}
Then you loop through the other file, and combine each line with a line that is stored in the ArrayList, concatenating it with the necessary commas and quotes, and append each line to a new file using Add-Content.
There would be numerous other and more sophisticated ways to do this.