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Agreed; best way will be to have column names to start with.
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I have to work with a CSV file that has no header column names. I know what these column names are; so what would be the best approach to work with a file like this? <br />
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Is this the best way to handle it? <br />
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<pre><code id="code-8255463">$header = &quot;FirstName&quot;,&quot;LastName&quot;,&quot;EmployeeNumber&quot; # so forth and so on

Import-csv c:\temp\myfile.csv -header $header</code></pre>
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I'm pretty sure that if a column was deleted and/or added to the file without updating the header array, the import would fail, correct?
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I have to work with a CSV file that has no header column names. I know what these column names are; so what would be the best approach to work with a file like this? 

Is this the best way to handle it? 



I'm pretty sure that if a column was deleted and/or added to the file without updating the header array, the import would fail, correct?

Agreed; best way will be to have column names to start with.

Powershell:  Best way to work with header column names in a CSV file

I have to work with a CSV file that has no header column names. I know what these column names are; so what would be the best approach to work with a file like this? 

Is this the best way to handle it? 



I&#39;m pretty sure that if a column was deleted and/or added to the file without updating the header array, the import would fail, correct?

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