Hi,

I have some .txt files that I want to paste to excel.

The problem is that before I paste the data to excel, I want it to find the first empyt row.

I am not sure if I was clear, but if you need any other information, I will be here.

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Hi Luiz,

Would it be possible to provide an example of what the .txt will look like and what you would like the result to be?

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Hi,

 

Follow attached one example of .txt file...

I want to insert each value in one columm of the excel...like for example:

Customer : XXXX
Quantity : 10000

 

XXXX goes to cell A1

10000 goes to cell B1

 

Next file that the Automate will import should see that cells A1 and B1 are not empyt and fill the new values on cell A2 and B2 and so on.

 

Thanks a lot for your support.

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Luiz Felipe,
you can set the cursor on the first empty row with keystrokes as below.
The selected cell is then column A on the first empty row, and you can paste or type your data in there as in my example.

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<AMWINDOWFOCUS WINDOWTITLE="Microsoft Excel *" /> <AMSENDKEY>{CTRL}{END}{HOME}{DOWN}</AMSENDKEY> <AMSENDKEY>abc{TAB}def{ENTER}</AMSENDKEY>

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Jean Delfosse - Automate Beta Tester
Win7 Pro 64 bits -Win XP Pro SP3 32 bits - AM8, AM7, BPA10, BPA9, BPA8, BPA7, AM6 Enterprise, AM4

Hello Jean,

Thanks a lot for your great support...

I understood this part, but how do I open the .txt file and copy the exact value that I need and them paste to the Excel Row?

 

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Using find with regular expressions to parse the header would do it as below, assuming the file is read into a variable

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<AMVARIABLE NAME="hdr">**************************************************** * HEADER DESCRIPTION * **************************************************** * Customer : XXXX Quantity : 10000 Type : PLUG-IN Batch : 123456 SAP_PO : 99999999 Profile : 70 HLR : 70 Graph_ref : 0 * ****************************************************</AMVARIABLE> <AMVARIABLE NAME="Customer"></AMVARIABLE> <AMFINDTEXT TEXT="%hdr%" FIND="(?&lt;=Customer : )[^\r\n]+" USERE="YES" FOUNDTEXTVARIABLE="Customer" /> <AMVARIABLE NAME="Quantity"></AMVARIABLE> <AMFINDTEXT TEXT="%hdr%" FIND="(?&lt;=Quantity : )[^\r\n]+" USERE="YES" FOUNDTEXTVARIABLE="Quantity" /> <AMWINDOWFOCUS WINDOWTITLE="Microsoft Excel *" /> <AMSENDKEY>{CTRL}{END}{HOME}{DOWN}</AMSENDKEY> <AMSENDKEY>%Customer%{TAB}%Quantity%{ENTER}</AMSENDKEY>

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Jean Delfosse - Automate Beta Tester
Win7 Pro 64 bits -Win XP Pro SP3 32 bits - AM8, AM7, BPA10, BPA9, BPA8, BPA7, AM6 Enterprise, AM4

sorry to ask you that so many questions Jean...I am unexperienced  in Automate.

If for example I have many TXT files in a folder with this same structure...

Is that possible to load file by file on the hdr variable?

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Hi Jean,

I could solve it by using this code:

 

<AMVARIABLE NAME="File_Name">C:\Vivo_Automate\Input Files</AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="Linha">2</AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="Campo_Customer"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="Campo_Quantity"></AMVARIABLE>
                    <!--  -->
<!-- Loop até importar todos os arquivos da pasta -->
<AMLOOP TYPE="FOLDER" FOLDER="C:\Vivo_Automate\Input Files\" RESULTVARIABLE="File_Name">
                    <!--  -->
<AMEXCELOPENWORKBOOK WORKBOOK="C:\Vivo_Automate\Planilha\Inputs_Vivo.xls" />
                    <!--  -->
     <AMFILESYSTEM ACTIVITY="read_file" FILE="%File_Name%" RESULTVARIABLE="Campo_Quantity" MAXBYTES="4" POSITION="164" NEWPOSITIONVARIABLE="Campo_Quantity" BYTESVARIABLE="Campo_Quantity" />
     <AMFILESYSTEM ACTIVITY="read_file" FILE="%File_Name%" RESULTVARIABLE="Campo_Customer" MAXBYTES="4" POSITION="147" NEWPOSITIONVARIABLE="Campo_Customer" BYTESVARIABLE="Campo_Customer" />
               <!--  -->
     <AMINPUT KEYSTROKES="{CTRL}{HOME}{CTRL}{DOWN}{DOWN}" LOCKKEYBOARD="YES" />
     <!--  -->
     <AMINPUT>%Campo_Customer%{TAB}%Campo_Quantity%{ENTER}</AMINPUT>
     <!--  -->
<AMEXCELCLOSEWORKBOOK />
          <!--  -->
</AMLOOP>

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Luiz,
your solution is quite correct.
It relies on the fact that the quantity and customer data are in a fixed position.
My earlier proposal with FINDTEXT and regexes was yielding the same result even if the file format changes slightly, or the length of the data is variable (I see you assume it is always 4, but I'm pretty sure it may vary, as in your sample the quantity is 10000).

Also you better open the Excel before the loop, and close it after the loop end, so that it happens only once, and runs faster.

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Win7 Pro 64 bits -Win XP Pro SP3 32 bits - AM8, AM7, BPA10, BPA9, BPA8, BPA7, AM6 Enterprise, AM4

Thanks a lot for your advise Jean.

I will follow this best practices!

 

In your code example, you set the file in a variable, but for example if I have different .txt files in the folder (with the same structure)...
how should I set the different files one by one?

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You just have to read the whole file (inside the loop) into the "hdr" variable.
Then the FINDTXT's will find the values from the "hdr" variable.
Tell me if you need more.

BTW, when you include task steps into a reply in the forum, use the "Reply" link, and in the message window, use the "Attach code" button. This way the code can be copied from that code window and pasted directly into the task builder.
This also avoids some problems with some AML tags that may jeopardize the full message.

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Jean Delfosse - Automate Beta Tester
Win7 Pro 64 bits -Win XP Pro SP3 32 bits - AM8, AM7, BPA10, BPA9, BPA8, BPA7, AM6 Enterprise, AM4

Great...

It is working now!!

Thanks a lot for your great support Jean!!

The problem was solved.

 

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You're welcome, Luiz

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