Read Excel data with Powershell and write to a variable

Question

Using PowerShell I would like to capture user input, compare the input to data in an Excel spreadsheet and write the data in corresponding cells to a variable. I am fairly n

Answer 1

User input can be read like this:

$num = Read-Host "Store number"

Excel can be handled like this:

$xl = New-Object -COM "Excel.Application"
$xl.Visible = $true
$wb = $xl.Workbooks.Open("C:\path\to\your.xlsx")
$ws = $wb.Sheets.Item(1)

Looking up a value in one column and assigning the corresponding value from another column to a variable could be done like this:

for ($i = 1; $i -le 3; $i++) {
  if ( $ws.Cells.Item($i, 1).Value -eq $num ) {
    $GoLiveDate = $ws.Cells.Item($i, 2).Value
    break
  }
}

Don't forget to clean up after you're done:

$wb.Close()
$xl.Quit()
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($xl)