Moving Folders base on their names using powershell

Hi there, I've reading some examples here which are not exactly what I need so I've been trying to adapt them with no luck. Sorry not a programmer here, but I need this done and don't know where to go.
The point is that I have 42.000 folders in a folders.
All the folders' names are numbers from 4 to 7 digits (which represents clients ID's)
They should be separated based on one list that I can put in a csv file.
In words my script should do this:
working path= d:\a (this is where the 42K folders are)
moving path= d:\a\movedfolders
list of folder to be moved= listtomove.csv
command:
read listtomove.csv
from beginning to end of listtomove.csv
compare first in list to all folders and
if find a match then move to movedfoders
if not read next value at listtomove.csv
next
exit:
voila... you just moved 22000 folders to the right place... lol (I don't need the count.)
Is this possible? if so: how?
Thanks for any help.

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press Return, then type my Admin password if prompted. This would then prompt me to confirm if I wanted to remove every file in the 501 trash subdirectory including the subdirectory itself. I would respond y for "yes" to every question except the last, to which I would respond n for "no." Here's what that looks like in Terminal:
% sudo rm -ri "/Volumes/Spare/.Trashes/501/"
Password:
examine files in directory /Volumes/Spare/.Trashes/501/? y
remove /Volumes/Spare/.Trashes/501//.DS_Store? y
remove /Volumes/Spare/.Trashes/501//Test.fp7? y
remove /Volumes/Spare/.Trashes/501/? n
I've highlighted my y and n responses in green and red, respectively, so you can distinguish them from the prompts. I respond n to the last question as I want to keep the 501 subdirectory.
So, once you've found the 5xx subdirectory containing the files you trashed when the FireWire drive was connected to the other computer, you'd use the command:
sudo rm -ri "/Volumes/partition_name/.Trashes/5xx/"
substituting the correct values for partition_name and 5xx, and typing y for "yes" in response to each prompt except the last prompt, e.g.
remove /Volumes/partition_name/.Trashes/5xx/?
to which you would respond n for "no." The files trashed when the FireWire drive was connected to the other Mac are now gone from the FireWire drive.
When completed, you end your Terminal session as follows:
1. At the Terminal prompt, type: exit
2. Press Return.
3. Quit (Command-Q) Terminal.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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