creating a TEXT FILE

[Qroozn]

i have created an excel program and am trying to create an interace which links it to a unix system via a text file.

I know the text to go into the text file...

but dont know how to generate a text file from within excel.

any ideas?

[ This Message was edited by: Qroozn on 2002-04-23 18:35 ]

[Mark O'Brien]

I pulled this from VBA help for the "Write" command. Also have a look for "OpenAsTextStream" and "OpenTextFile". This should get you started. Also, offhand, I know that you may run into problems since UNIX textfiles don't use carriage returns to end a line. (can't remember what though.

This example uses the Write # statement to write raw data to a sequential file.



Open "TESTFILE" For Output As #1    ' Open file for output.

Write #1, "Hello World", 234    ' Write comma-delimited data.

Write #1,    ' Write blank line.



Dim MyBool, MyDate, MyNull, MyError

' Assign Boolean, Date, Null, and Error values.

MyBool = False : MyDate = #February 12, 1969# : MyNull = Null

MyError = CVErr(32767)

' Boolean data is written as #TRUE# or #FALSE#. Date literals are 

' written in universal date format, for example, #1994-07-13# 

 'represents July 13, 1994. Null data is written as #NULL#. 

' Error data is written as #ERROR errorcode#.

Write #1, MyBool ; " is a Boolean value"

Write #1, MyDate ; " is a date"

Write #1, MyNull ; " is a null value"

Write #1, MyError ; " is an error value"

Close #1    ' Close file.

[Qroozn]

Thnks heaps.
I'll need to muck around with it.

I'm sure the bosses will sh!t their pants when they see what their Manufacturing trainee has managed to do.