This is my first post - I will be happy to make any corrections required for any mistakes made in the post.
I have been looking through the forums here for a few months and have learned a lot but I cannot seem to accomplish my goal with what I have found.
I need to read a CSV file (Read-Only) when it changes and place the resulting array into and active and open Excel 2016 Tab. I can do this using com and system.io.watcherchangetypes but this is too slow and requires copy paste.
I need to read the csv as fast as possible (under a second) and convert the lines into a usable array for Excel. This whole process has to take under 2 seconds MAX. Some of the CSV's will exceed 180,000 lines as the day goes on.
I work for a Trading Company.
I would be happy with a single column, Tab delimited and multiple Rows. I cant get the multiple rows.
I have to write the range line by line and that takes too long.
I was looking at this one but I am not clear on how to make the whole thing dynamic. There is no set amount of headers and the rows will change as well. I cannot work with any static data at all.
This is the post which prompted me to ask for help: How to use powershell to reorder CSV columns
$export = "\\UNC\to\file\Name.csv"
#$excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
#$excel.visible = $true
#$workbook = $excel.Workbooks.Add()
$reader = [System.IO.File]::OpenText($export)
$writer = New-Object System.IO.StreamWriter "data2.csv"
for(;;) {
$line = $reader.ReadLine()
if ($null -eq $line) {
break
}
$i=1
$data = $line.Split(",") | %{
if($_ -ne $null)
{
Write-Host $_ $i
++$i
}
}
[void]$data.Length
# $data.GetValue()
#$writer.WriteLine('{0},{1},{2}', $data[0], $data[1], $data[2])
}
$reader.Close()
#$writer.Close()
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE:
I figured it out. The result is probably not the most efficient but it gets me what I need for now while i explore how to better accomplish it with what I have learned.
(Measure-Command { $data = [System.io.File]::Open($export, 'Open', 'Read', 'ReadWrite')
$reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($data)
$count = 0
While($text = $reader.Readline())
{
If($text -eq $null)
{
$reader.Close()
$data.close()
}
++$count
}
}).TotalSeconds
$array2 = New-Object 'object[,]' $count,1
$end = ++$count
$file = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -ArgumentList $export
$stringBuilder = New-Object System.Text.StringBuilder
$list = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[System.String]
$a = 0
Measure-Command {
While ($i = $file.ReadLine() -Replace ",","`t")
{
if ($i -eq $null)
{
$file.close()
break loop
}
$null = $stringBuilder.Append($i)
$list.Add($i)
$array2[$a,0] = $i
++$a
}
$outputString = $stringBuilder.ToString()
$array = $list.ToArray()
}
Import-CSV?