Extracting specific data from multiple text files to single CSV

Question

Hello,
Unfortunately my background is not scripting so I am struggling to piece together a powershell script to achieve the below. Hoping an experienced powershell scripter can provide the answer. Thanks in advance.
I have a folder containing approx. 2000 label type files that I need to extract certain information from to index a product catalog. Steps to be performed within the script as I see are:
1. Search folder for *.job file types
2. Search the files for certain criteria and where matched return into single CSV file
3. End result should be a single CSV with column headings:
a) DESCRIPTION
b) MODEL
c) BARCODE                                                                                                                   

Answer 1

Try:
# Script to extract data from .job files and report it in CSV
# Sam Boutros - 8/24/2014
# http://superwidgets.wordpress.com/category/powershell/
$CSV = ".\myfile.csv" # Change this filename\path as needed
$Folders = "d:\sandbox" # You can add multiple search folders as "c:\folder1","\\server\share\folder2"
# End Data entry section
if (-not (Test-Path -Path $CSV)) {
Write-Output """Description"",""Model"",""Barcode""" | Out-File -FilePath $CSV -Encoding ascii
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path $Folders -Include *.job -Force -Recurse
foreach ($File in $Files) {
$FileContent = Get-Content -Path $File
$Keyword = "viewkind4"
if ($FileContent -match $Keyword) {
for ($i=0; $i -lt $FileContent.Count; $i++) {
if ($FileContent[$i] -match $Keyword) {
$Description = $FileContent[$i].Split("\")[$FileContent[$i].Split("\").Count-1]
} else {
Write-Host "Keyword $Keyword not found in file $File" -ForegroundColor Yellow
$Keyword = "Code:"
if ($FileContent -match $Keyword) {
for ($i=0; $i -lt $FileContent.Count; $i++) {
if ($FileContent[$i]-match $Keyword) {
$Parts = $FileContent[$i].Split(" ")
for ($j=0; $j -lt $Parts.Count; $j++) {
if ($Parts[$j] -match $Keyword) {
$Model = $Parts[$j+1].Trim()
$Model = $Model.Split("\")[$Model.Split("\").Count-1]
} else {
Write-Host "Keyword $Keyword not found in file $File" -ForegroundColor Yellow
$Keyword = "9313"
if ($FileContent -match $Keyword) {
for ($i=0; $i -lt $FileContent.Count; $i++) {
if ($FileContent[$i] -match "9313") {
$Index = $FileContent[$i].IndexOf("9313")
$Barcode = $null
for ($j=0; $j -lt 12; $j++) {
$Barcode += $FileContent[$i][($Index+$j)]
} else {
Write-Host "Keyword $Keyword not found in file $File" -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Output "File: '$File', Description: '$Description', Model: '$Model', Barcode: '$Barcode'"
Write-Output """$Description"",""$Model"",""$Barcode""" | Out-File -FilePath $CSV -Append -Encoding ascii
Sam Boutros, Senior Consultant, Software Logic, KOP, PA http://superwidgets.wordpress.com (Please take a moment to Vote as Helpful and/or Mark as Answer, where applicable)