Importing a directory of cvs files

[winnie]

I'll have a folder of csv files, which follow the same format but with a varying number of rows at the beginning which I don't need.  (Also some stuff at the end I don't need)

I noticed the "Start Data Import on Line" option but this would be variable on how many rows of junk there are at the start.

I was thinking of making a macro so the action would be to update this value and update the file but since there's a directory, rather than just choosing a file - file browse for example I'm not sure how to do this.  It would have to read each file (and it struggles to read it properly even when I treat read errors as warnings since the number of columns for the junk is less than the columns in the actual data I want.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Cheers

[RodL · Accepted solution]

Assuming that you are looking to keep the "Orders" data, I would try bringing in all of the files with a single input with wildcards and no delimiter.

Then I'd filter out anything that doesn't start with a date (using RegEx for the pattern matching), and then a Text-To-Column tool with a comma delimiter.

You'd then need to add a Select tool to eliminate the "full data" field and rename your columns.

Something like the attached...

[winnie]

Thanks!  That's great, and a lot less complicated than what I had in mind.