Powershell Parsing CSV file that contains comma - parsing

Question

Consider that CSV file:
Node Name,Client Name,Job Directory,Policy Name
server1,test.domain.com,"vmware:/?filter= VMHostName AnyOf "server2.domain.com", "server3.domain.com"",TEST
My code:
$events = Import-Csv "C:\file.csv" | foreach {
New-Object PSObject -prop #{
Server = $_.{Node Name};
Client = $_.{Client Name};
{JobDirectory/Script} = $_.{Job Directory};
Policy = $_.{Policy Name};
}
}
I have some problems when I try to parse the third field. I am not sure if its because the comma, or the double quote.
This is the object I would like to have:
Node Name : server1
Client Name : test.domain.com
JobDirectory/Script : vmware:/?filter= VMHostName AnyOf "server2.domain.com", "server3.domain.com"
Policy Name : TEST
Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Ok, so the easiest way to approach this is to read the file in with Get-Content and then split each line where the commas are not inside quotes. I borrowed the regex from this solution for this.
Using your current input data I would do something like this
$filedata = Get-Content C:\temp\test.csv
$asObject = ForEach($singlerow in ($filedata | Select-Object -Skip 1)){
$props = #{}
$singlerow = $singlerow -split ',(?=(?:[^"]*"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)'
[pscustomobject][ordered]#{
Server = $singlerow[0]
Client = $singlerow[1]
"JobDirectory/Script" = $singlerow[2]
Policy = $singlerow[3]
}
}
Sample Output from $asObject | Format-List
Server : server1
Client : test.domain.com
JobDirectory/Script : "vmware:/?filter= VMHostName AnyOf "server2.domain.com", "server3.domain.com""
Policy : TEST

Answer 2

Another way using your starting code
$obj = gc c:\temp\test.csv |
% { $_ -replace '"(\b[^"]*\b)"','$1' } |
convertfrom-csv | % { [pscustomobject][ordered] #{
Server = $_.{Node Name}
Client = $_.{Client Name}
{JobDirectory/Script} = $_.{Job Directory}
Policy = $_.{Policy Name} }
}