jhtromb Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Hello, I have a little problem working with AutoIT and Excel: I need to copy some values from an Excel List and I want the script to loop until it copies an empty cell. ; copy value in cell Send("{CTRLDOWN}") Send("{c}") Send("{CTRLUP}") $value = ClipGet() ; go down one row Send("{DOWN}") ; loop through list until reaching an empty cell while $value <> "" ; work with value ; ...... ; copy value in cell Send("{CTRLDOWN}") Send("{c}") Send("{CTRLUP}") $value = ClipGet() ; go down one row Send("{DOWN}") WEnd This script does not work, because it does not recognize the content of an empty cell as "", so the comparison with <> does not stop the loop. I tried to find out the problem: if I make a message box with StringLen($value) it shows me that the length of the empty cell is "2". When I try StringLen("") it gives me the value 0. Anyone any idea why the length of the empty string is 2 and not 0? Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Why don't you use Excel UDF which comes with AutoIt? Use _ExcelReadCell and _ExcelWriteCell to copy a cell. My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted March 14, 2012 Moderators Share Posted March 14, 2012 jheinze,At a guess it is a @CRLF character (or 2 characters to be absolutely correct). Try this and see if it works: while $value <> @CRLFBut why not use the Excel UDF to do this? M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhtromb Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 Thank you very much, both! Both ideas work well. I did not think wide enough to use Excel UDF as I'm an AutoIT newbie. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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