Automation

Little help please,

I am writing a script to look at a csv file and if a certain value exists then do something, but in doing something the script would need to pull the information from that same column. Below is an example bit of code, from this i want the script to look at that csv file and if it finds a value of test3 to return the value in the IPAddr column of the same row...

"Name","Hostname","IPAddr"

"test1","testing1","1.1.1.1"

"test2","testing2","2.2.2.2"

"test3","testing3","3.3.3.3"

$testcsv = import-csv "C:\Rich\Test.csv"

$hostname = "test3"

$Output = @()

where-object ($hostname -eq $testcsv.Name) {

$output += $testcsv.name

$output += $testcsv.IPAddr

}

$Output | out-file "C:\Rich\testoutput.txt"

You mean something like this?
It uses a Where-clause to only handle the lines that fit the test.

that was incredibly useful and thank you for the quick reply

One more thing sorry,

How could i move the actual method to a function or can you not do that because of the way its referencing the csv

$hostname = "test3"

$Output = @()

function outputfn {

$output += $_.Name

$output += $_.IPAddr

}

import-csv "C:\Rich\Test.csv" -UseCulture | where{$_.Name -eq $hostname} | foreach-object -process {

#$output += $_.Name

#$output += $_.IPAddr

outputfn

}

$Output | out-file "C:\Rich\testoutput.txt"

No problem.

You could use a function like this for example