Powershell Sort and transpose data based on particular column - powershell

Question

I am new to powershell. I have a data which is in columnar format, which needs to be converted into rows by sorting it numerically.
Input data:
Fruit month amount
1apple jan 10
3blueberry jan 20
4mango jan 30
2banana jan 50
1apple feb 20
3blueberry feb 50
4mango feb 80
2banana feb 95
Desired Output:
Fruit JanAmount FebAmount
1apple 10 20
2banana 50 95
3blueberry 20 50
4mango 30 80
Can anyone pls help me with this?

Answer 1

As long as there are no whitespace in the fruit-names then you can read the file as CSV with whitespace as delimiter. Then merge them using Group-Object and Add-Member to dynamically add x months. Ex:
Import-Csv -Path $InSort -Delimiter " " |
#Group all records per fruit
Group-Object Fruit |
#Sort by fruitname
Sort-Object Name |
#Process each group (fruit) to merge the rows
ForEach-Object {
#Create object (row) per fruit
$obj = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property #{
Fruit = $_.Name
}
#For each record (month), add amount column
$_.Group | ForEach-Object {
#Turn month-value into TitleCase (first letter uppercase)
$month = (Get-Culture).TextInfo.ToTitleCase($_.Month)
#Add amount-column per record (month)
Add-Member -InputObject $obj -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "$($Month)Amount" -Value $_.Amount
}
#Output new objects
$obj
} | Export-CSV -Path newfile.csv -NoTypeInformation -Delimiter " "
Output:
Fruit JanAmount FebAmount
----- --------- ---------
1apple 10 20
2banana 50 95
3blueberry 20 50
4mango 30 80

Answer 2

if you delimiter into your file is space, try this:
import-csv "C:\Temp\yourfile.txt" -Delimiter ' ' |
group fruit |
select Name, #{N="JanAmount";E={($_.Group | where month -eq 'jan').amount}} , #{N="FebAmount";E={($_.Group | where month -eq 'feb').amount}}