Create variable from CSV

Question

I want to make variables from a particular column in a CSV.

CSV will have the following headers:

FolderName,FolderManager,RoleGroup,ManagerEmail
         


        

Answer 1

In PowerShell, you can import a CSV file and get back custom objects. Below code snippet shows how to import a CSV to generate objects from it and then dot reference the properties on each object in a pipeline to create the new variables (your specific use case here).

PS>cat .\dummy.csv                                                                                        
"foldername","FolderManager","RoleGroup"                                                                  
"Accounts","UserA","ManagerA"                                                                             
"HR","UserB","ManagerB"                                                                                   

PS>$objectsFromCSV = Import-CSV -Path .\dummy.csv                                                         

PS>$objectsFromCSV | Foreach-Object -Process {New-Variable -Name $PSItem.FolderName }                     

PS>Get-Variable -name Accounts                                                                            

Name                           Value                                                                      
----                           -----                                                                      
Accounts                                                                                                                                              
PS>Get-Variable -name HR                                                                                  

Name                           Value                                                                      
----                           -----                                                                      
HR    

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