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  • March 18, 2020
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nedwaterman
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Hello,

I need to retrieve the value of a column header in a CSV file. The column header contains the ID of a meter I need to use as an insert into a database. Unfortunately I can't use a filepathreader as the id filed isn't included.

 

Any idea how I might do this? I have attached a test file. The value I need to extract from the column header is the string after the undescore.

Best answer by ebygomm

If you read the csv without a field names line so your attributes are returned as col0 and col1, the first record will contain the value in col1 and you can use a string searcher with some regex to return the value.

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If you read the csv without a field names line so your attributes are returned as col0 and col1, the first record will contain the value in col1 and you can use a string searcher with some regex to return the value.


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  • March 18, 2020

Brilliant - thank you!