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Powershell:Reading the header columns in a .CSV file using import-csv cmdlet

Posted by on November 25th, 2009

As my journey into the wonderland of Powershell continues, I stumbled upon the need to read the list of header columns from a .CSV file. You would have already used import-csv to read the content of a .CSV file. What a beauty! If you need to know the column headers in the file, you can try this approach: $headers=import-csv sample.csv | gm -member noteproperty foreach ($headerline in $headers) { out-host -Inputobject $headerline.name } I thank my colleagues at Microsoft for giving me this tip….(read more)
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