Renaming Multiple Printers "Rename-Printer"

Question

Having trouble with trying to import a .csv or .txt with multiple printer names (shown below). Running this locally on a server to change printer names in a list.

oldName,newName
printer1,printer2

From what VSCode is telling me is that these lines are erroring out for some reason and I can not figure it out for the life of me. Commented out some lines for testing.

Rename-Printer -Name $OldName -NewName $NewName
#Rename-Printer -InputObject $Computer -NewName $Computers.newName -Verbose

Code below (was trying .txt for a bit) :

#$Computers = import-csv .\printers.csv -Header 'oldName', 'newName'
$Computers = Import-Csv .\printers.txt -Header 'oldName', 'newName'
foreach ($Computer in $Computers){
    $OldName = $($Computer.oldName)
    $NewName = $($Computer.newName)
    Rename-Printer -Name $OldName -NewName $NewName
    #Rename-Printer -InputObject $Computer -NewName $Computers.newName -Verbose
}

Get-Printer | select Name,Comment,ShareName,PortName | Export-Csv C:\Users\$username$\Desktop\exportPrinters.csv -NoTypeInformation
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Answer 1

You don't need that much code for such a simple task

Import-Csv 'C:\temp\test.csv' | %{Rename-Printer -Name $_.oldName.Trim() -NewName $_.newName.Trim() -ErrorAction Continue}
Get-Printer | select Name,Comment,ShareName,PortName | Export-Csv $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\exportPrinters.csv -NoTypeInformation
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Issues were: "Import-csv" will automatically pick up headers, and your "Export-Csv" had an extra $ in it. If you're concerned about whitespace, adding .Trim() to a string object will trim any whitespace from the ends.