How to get one row of info from .Csv file with Powershell? - powershell

Question

The powershell script:
$test = import-csv “C:\CSVFiles\test.csv”
ForEach ($item in $test)
{
$Name = $item.(“Name”)
$property = $item.("property")
$location = $item.(“location”)
Write-Output "$Name=$Name"
Write-Output "Property=$property"
Write-Output "Location=$location"
}
This script shows all the data for name,property and location for each row. I want the results to only show the data of one row;for example the row: n1;13;computer
The Cvs file =
Name;property;location
n1;13;computer
n2;65;computer
n3;12;tablet
n4;234;phone
n5;123;phone
n6;125;phone
What the current script spits out:
Name=n1
Property=13
Location=computer
Name=n2
Property=65
Location=computer
Name= n3
Property=12
Location=tablet
Name=n4
Property=234
Location=phone
Name=n5
Property=123
Location=phone
Name=n6
Property=125
Location=phone

Answer 1

There are many ways to select a Row of a csv and to present the data
For demonstration I use an inline csv with a here string.
$Test = #"
Name;property;location
n1;13;computer
n2;65;computer
n3;12;tablet
n4;234;phone
n5;123;phone
n6;125;phone
"# | ConvertFrom-Csv -delimiter ';'
> $test[0]
Name property location
---- -------- --------
n1 13 computer
> $test | where-object Name -eq 'n1'
Name property location
---- -------- --------
n1 13 computer
> $test | where-object Name -eq 'n1' | Select-Object Name,property
Name property
---- --------
n1 13
> $test | where-object Name -eq 'n1' | ForEach-Object {"Name:{0} has property: {1}" -f $_.Name,$_.property}
Name:n1 has property: 13
Once imported the csv rows contents are converted to objects
If you want to get the original row of the csv matching a criteria don't import but:
> Get-Content "C:\CSVFiles\test.csv" | Select-String '^n1'
n1;13;computer
^n1 is a regular expression anchoring the pattern at line begin.
Select-String -Path "C:\CSVFiles\test.csv" -Pattern '^n1'
Is the same without a pipe

Answer 2

So your current output is having 3 objects that are having 3 headers majorly.
One is Name; Second one is Property and the third one is Location.
As part of solution, you can either pull the records by specifying the index value or you can use the .Headername to pull all the sets of same object. Like:
Avoiding Foreach and accessing with $test[0] or $test[1]
Or you can use like: $test.Name directly to have all of the names from the csv