Question

I am building a categorized todo list (not as a feature or anything, just a quick, off-the cuff list). The list should be organized like this:

Category1  
-----------Item1  
-----------Item2  
Category2  
-----------Item1  (always the same items in each category)  
-----------Item2  

So I have 2 text files, 1 with the categories and one with the items.

If this were a database problem, I’d do a cartesian join, and the result would be pretty close to what I’m after.

What I want to do is take these 2 files and spew out an Excel file where the first column is the category, and the second is the items.

I started writing a little C# program to brute force this, but it just seems like I must be missing something — is there a macro or maybe even a pithy PowerShell script that I could throw together to do this? It just seems like it should be so easy.

Answer 1

If you really just looking for a quick and dirty solution, you can quickly write a VB/C# code to join the two files into one CSV and open them in Excel to continue your task. If you require more manipulation on the file on the fly, I recommend you to read the link posted here.

To read/write from excel spreadsheet using C#

Regards,
Andy.