CSV Column Names

Demonstrates how to access CSV column names.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    --  This example program loads a file (sample.csv)
    --  that contains this content:
    -- 
    --  year,color,country,food
    --  2001,red,France,cheese
    --  2005,blue,"United States",hamburger
    --  2008,green,Italy,pasta
    --  1998,orange,Japan,sushi
    -- 
    --  The first row contains the column names.
    --  This file is available at:
    --  http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/sample.csv

    DECLARE @csv int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Csv', @csv OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    --  Prior to loading the CSV file, indicate that the 1st row
    --  should be treated as column names:
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @csv, 'HasColumnNames', 1

    --  Load the CSV records from the file:
    DECLARE @success int

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @csv, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'sample.csv'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @csv, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        RETURN
      END

    --  Display the column names:
    DECLARE @i int

    DECLARE @colName nvarchar(4000)

    DECLARE @idx int

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @csv, 'NumColumns', @iTmp0 OUT
    SELECT @i = 0
    WHILE @i <= @iTmp0 - 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @csv, 'GetColumnName', @colName OUT, @i



        PRINT STR(@i) + ': ' + @colName

        --  The following line demonstrates to to get the column
        --  index given a column name:
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @csv, 'GetIndex', @idx OUT, @colName



        PRINT @colName + ' is at column index ' + STR(@idx)
        SELECT @i = @i + 1
      END
END
GO