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Hi All!

I'm a newbie and trying to find out if there is a easy way to convert csv or text file directly to a SharePoint List?

I have been trying to do it from one drive or directly but cant find the way of how, or what step I need to make it work.

Can somebody help me step by step?

Thanks alot!

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Jcook 7,781 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello,

So did you want the file as an attachment in the SharePoint site in a list.
Or did you want the file to be uploaded into SharePoint in a Document Library
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Hi @Anonymous

There are no Microsoft CSV reader in Power Automate where you can read & parse all the values from a location. You could achieve this by using lots of string manipulation expressions using flow.

Here is my CSV file (SPList.csv) where each values are comma separated and each lines are separated by enter key (New line).

1,2,3
4,5,6
7,8,9

Follow the below steps:

First get the file from OneDrive.

Next step is get the filecontent

Next we need to use a Split expression to split each lines. For this we need to declare a variable called EnterKey and under the value just press the enter key.

The above split expression is as follows:

split(outputs('Compose'),variables('EnterKey'))

Next we need to read each lines then split each line values. So split each line using comma (,) we need another split expression.

So to read each lines we need a foreach loop

Above I am using two split statements.

First one is as follows. This will split each line values.

split(items('Apply_to_each'),',')

In my CSV file I only have three values in each line. So the index is going to be like 0, 1, 2

So to get the first value which is one use the below expression.

outputs('Compose_3')[0]

To get the next value use expression

outputs('Compose_3')[1]

and so on.

Here are my test results

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@abm's solution is great! This solution helped me with a very similar project. I would only add that in order to add the output values from the .csv or .txt file(s) into a Sharepoint list, it helped me to turn each one into its own variable after I split the comma delimited values (for my project I was able to skip the "Apply to Each" step, since I was only working with 1 row or 1 record of values).

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