PowerShell read Excel cells in a array and create xml doument? - arrays

Question

I use an array reading Excel content which should be used to create an xml file, but have troubles to allocate the array values to the write xml statements.
Code of the array:
# Parse Excel columns A and B and store it in array "$headerInit"
for ($j=1; $j -le $rowMax-1; $j++)
{
$Obj = New-Object Psobject -Property #{
Value = $ws.Cells.Item($j,2).text
Header = $ws.Cells.Item($j,1).text
No = $j
}
$DataArray.add($obj) # Visualize the array content
}
$DataArray | Out-Gridview
Example of the array content:
No Header Value
...
12 Address 1234,0x3030
...
Here the code excerpt to create the xml document (values "1234" and "0x3030" are insert manually, but should be allocated from the array $DataArray):
...
# Write node <address1>
$xmlWriter.WriteStartElement('address1')
$xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString('address','1234')
$xmlWriter.WriteEndElement() # <-- Closing the node <address1>
# Write node <address2>
$xmlWriter.WriteStartElement('address2')
$xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString('address','0x3030')
$xmlWriter.WriteEndElement() # <-- Closing the node <address2>
...
How can I allocate the 2 values, divided by comma "1234,0x3030" from the array $DataArray, Header "Address" in the create xml statement? Any help is appreciated - Thanks.

Answer 1

Meanwhile I have solved the issue seperating the 2 values devided by comma.
Solution is:
$a,$b = $DataArray[12].Value.split(',')
Is there any easy way to alocate the values direct to the write xml statement without additional variables?

Answer 2

As you've found from my suggestion, you can use Split to separate the two values you want:
$addressLeft,$addressRight = $DataArray[12].Value.Split(',')
You can also reference the seperate parts of the split directly, as Split creates an array you can use the index number to access each element:
$DataArray[12].Value.split(',')[0]
$DataArray[12].Value.split(',')[1]
The other option is to split the value into two propertys when you build $DataArray:
$Obj = New-Object Psobject -Property #{
Value = $ws.Cells.Item($j,2).text
addressLeft = $ws.Cells.Item($j,2).text.Split(',')[0]
addressRight = $ws.Cells.Item($j,2).text.Split(',')[1]
Header = $ws.Cells.Item($j,1).text
No = $j
}
I've left the original Value property in, but you could remove it if you only want the split values.