Vbscript to extract data from excel to text file

If the key file does not have 3 lines I get a 'Out of Range' error. I tried getting around this with an 'If Exists Then' statement, but I'm stuck on what to look for.

What am I doing wrong? That was it! Thank you, sir. Posted by: punit 11 years ago. Please i want this thing urgently, as i m new with vbscripting and i m not able to write vbscript on my own, need help please Posted by: Aruna 7 years ago.

Posted by: kapil. Read text fiile or excel file and then write in excel file. Also, notice that formating is important in VBScripting. If you are using text based editor for VBS, without formatting it is very complicated to understand script. Thanks, kapil. What's interesting is that if I enable the '. With either cofiguration the script is still able to open the spreadsheet and write the info from the first. The error appears just after that.

Any suggestions? I've tried adding Option Explicit and dimming all my variables but that didn't help. Can you suggest something better? Preferably for free. VBS is definitely hard to understand. Hopefully that will help to expediate my learning curve. It's not so much the editor, more the formatting of the code. Use TAB or mulitple spaces to ident the code, e. Insert the 'STOP' statement somewhere in the code and run it.

When the script reaches the STOP statement, you'll be prompted to start the debugger. Click through and use either F5 to execute the script as-is or F11 to step through each line at a time. That makes debugging script much easier. So, to the problem If you're getting 'Object Required' then clearly the script thinks there's no object for it to use. At which line is it presenting that error? The debugger will show you.

I suspect it's the AppExcel object, in which case you need to determine why it's unable to create it. Similarly, error-trap ALL operations. Right after the call to. Save method, did the file get saved? Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums.

Visual C. Sign in to vote. Hi, May i know how will the code be if i want to extract data from a complicated text file content? Wednesday, December 9, PM. Hello, Separation of data within the lines is basic string parsing. ReadAllText "test. Test automation is nothing but running the manual test test cases with the help of a tool. That is supported by test data. This test data is managed in many ways for example, excel, json, xml etc.

If you are using excel file to store your test data, read further to know how to read and write Excel file using VBScript.

This object can do any task required to manipulate an excel workbook such as, read a workbook, write a workbook, add a worksheet, read from cells, write in cells, copy and paste cells, find used ranges etc. This page has list of all the functions which help in reading and writing data from excel workbook.