This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'ConvertTo-Csv', in PowerShell version 2 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate ' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Converts Microsoft .NET Framework objects into a series of comma-separated value (CSV) variable-length strings.
ConvertTo-CSV [[-Delimiter] <char>] [-InputObject] <psobject> [-NoTypeInformation] [<CommonParameters>]
ConvertTo-CSV [-UseCulture] [-InputObject] <psobject> [-NoTypeInformation] [<CommonParameters>]
The ConvertTo-CSV cmdlet returns a series of comma-separated, variable-length (CSV) strings that represents the objects that you submit. You can
then use the ConvertFrom-CSV cmdlet to re-create objects from the CSV strings. The resulting objects are CSV versions of the original objects tha
t consist of string representations of the property values and no methods.
You can also use the Export-CSV and Import-CSV cmdlets to convert .NET Framework objects to CSV strings (and back). Export-CSV is the same as Con
vertTo-CSV, except that it saves the CSV strings in a file.
You can use the parameters of the ConvertTo-CSV cmdlet to specify a delimiter other than a comma or to direct ConvertTo-CSV to use the default de
limiter for the current culture.
For more information, see Export-CSV, and see the Notes section.
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-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------
C:\PS>get-process powershell | convertto-csv
#TYPE System.Diagnostics.Process
"__NounName","Name","Handles","VM","WS","PM","NPM","Path","Company","CPU","FileVersion","ProductVersion","Description",
"Product","BasePriority","ExitCode","HasExited","ExitTime","Handle","HandleCount","Id","MachineName","MainWindowHandle"
,"MainWindowTitle","MainModule","MaxWorkingSet","MinWorkingSet","Modules","NonpagedSystemMemorySize","NonpagedSystemMem
orySize64","PagedMemorySize","PagedMemorySize64","PagedSystemMemorySize","PagedSystemMemorySize64","PeakPagedMemorySize
","PeakPagedMemorySize64","PeakWorkingSet","PeakWorkingSet64","PeakVirtualMemorySize","PeakVirtualMemorySize64","Priori
tyBoostEnabled","PriorityClass","PrivateMemorySize","PrivateMemorySize64","PrivilegedProcessorTime","ProcessName","Proc
essorAffinity","Responding","SessionId","StartInfo","StartTime","SynchronizingObject","Threads","TotalProcessorTime","U
serProcessorTime","VirtualMemorySize","VirtualMemorySize64","EnableRaisingEvents","StandardInput","StandardOutput","Sta
ndardError","WorkingSet","WorkingSet64","Site","Container"
"Process","powershell","216","597544960","60399616","63197184","21692","C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powe
rshell.exe","Microsoft Corporation","3.4788223","6.1.6587.1 (fbl_srv_powershell(nigels).070711-0102)","6.1.6587.1","Win
dows PowerShell","Microsoft® Windows® Operating System","8",,"False",,"860","216","5132",".","5636936","Windows PowerSh
ell 2.0 (04/17/2008 00:10:40)","System.Diagnostics.ProcessModule (powershell.exe)","1413120","204800","System.Diagnosti
cs.ProcessModuleCollection","21692","21692","63197184","63197184","320080","320080","63868928","63868928","60715008","6
0715008","598642688","598642688","True","Normal","63197184","63197184","00:00:00.2028013","powershell","15","True","1",
"System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo","4/21/2008 3:49:19 PM",,"System.Diagnostics.ProcessThreadCollection","00:00:03.51
00225","00:00:03.3072212","597544960","597544960","False",,,,"60399616","60399616",,
Description
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This command converts a single process object to CSV format. The command uses the Get-Process cmdlet to get the PowerShell process on the local c
omputer. It uses a pipeline operator (|) to send the command to the ConvertTo-CSV cmdlet, which converts it to a series of comma-separated string
s.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------
C:\PS>$date = get-date
C:\PS> convertto-csv -inputobject $date -delimiter ";" -notypeinformation
Description
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This example converts a date object to CSV format.
The first command uses the Get-Date cmdlet to get the current date. It saves it in the $date variable.
The second command uses the ConvertTo-CSV cmdlet to convert the DateTime object in the $date variable to CSV format. The command uses the InputOb
ject parameter to specify the object to be converted. It uses the Delimiter parameter to specify the delimiter that separates the object properti
es. It uses the NoTypeInformation parameter to suppress the #TYPE string.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------
C:\PS>get-eventlog -log "windows powershell" | convertto-csv -useculture
Description
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This command converts the Windows PowerShell event log on the local computer to a series of CSV strings.
The command uses the Get-EventLog cmdlet to get the events in the Windows PowerShell log. A pipeline operator (|) sends the events to the Convert
To-CSV cmdlet, which converts the events to CSV format. The command uses the UseCulture parameter, which uses the list separator for the current
culture as the delimiter.