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.

If you've encountered a CSV file and you're unsure what they're for, the good news is they're pretty straightforward and easy-to-use with apps you already know.

You can insert or generate the data for the CSV file in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and then save the file in CSV format. CSV files outputted by Excel 2007 can be used in any program that can read.

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 ...

For this article, assume that your .CSV file has four columns: first name, last name, department and employee ID. You'll read the .CSV file using the Import-Csv cmdlet in PowerShell. This cmdlet ...