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Asked: 2026-05-17T23:33:44+00:00

I have a PHP script that imports up to 10 or so different CSV

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I have a PHP script that imports up to 10 or so different CSV files. Each row of each file contains bank account info, including balance. After I’ve imported all the CSV data into my database, I’d like to make sure the data got in there correctly by comparing the total account balance in the database to the total account balance of the CSV files.

I see at least a few options:

  1. Manually total up all the account balances in Excel – yuck.

  2. Write a PHP script to read each CSV file and total up the account balances – also yuck.

  3. Some third option that I hope exists. It would be amazing if I could do something like:

    excel --file="cd.csv" | sum --column="E"

That’s obviously not a real thing but hopefully you get the idea. Using some combination of PHP, MySQL, Linux commands, Excel and/or any other tools, is there a simple way to do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Don’t have to complete answer for you, but AWK should be able to solve your problem: Have a look at these 2 posts:

    https://superuser.com/questions/53652/transforming-csv-file-using-sed

    Shell command to sum integers, one per line?

    I’m not enough of a AWK expert to give the solution, but perhaps someone else can help us here.

    Another option (which you may also consider yuck) is to use a library like PHPExcel

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