Compare 2 excel spreadsheets if amatch is found copy certain cells back the original workbook

[padinski]

Hi all,

As the title suggests. I have 2 spreadsheets with different information in both, however their is 1 common value to link the 2 spreadsheets together.

What I want to do is have everything from column B in an array from workbook1, the script would loop through the array searching for that exact value in workbook2 in column A. If that value is found in workbook2, I need to copy information from 2 different cells that relate to that record from workbook2 back into workbook1.

This is what I have so far but, just can't get the copying it the cell values from workbook2 into woorkbook 1.

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;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Select filepath with message to display in FileOpenDialog.
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Const $sMessage = "Select workbook filepath."
Local $sFilePath = FileOpenDialog($sMessage, "D:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\", "Excel (*.xls;*.xlsx;*.csv)|", $FD_FILEMUSTEXIST)
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Create application object or connect to an already running Excel instance
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local $oAppl = _Excel_Open()
If @error Then Exit MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Excel UDF:", "Error creating the Excel application object." & @CRLF & "@error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended)
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
;open workbook1
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$oWorkbook = _Excel_BookOpen($oAppl, $sFilepath, Default, Default, True)
If @error Then Exit MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Excel UDF:", "Error opening '" & $oWorkbook & "'." & @CRLF & "@error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended)
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Select filepath with message to display in FileOpenDialog.
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Const $sMessage2 = "Select workbook2 filepath."
Local $sFilePath2 = FileOpenDialog($sMessage2, "D:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\", "Excel (*.xls;*.xlsx;*.csv)|", $FD_FILEMUSTEXIST)
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
;open workbook2
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$oWorkbook2 = _Excel_BookOpen($oAppl, $sFilepath2, Default, Default, True)
If @error Then Exit MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Excel UDF:", "Error opening '" & $oWorkbook & "'." & @CRLF & "@error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended)
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
;Read array from workbook
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local $aArray1 = _Excel_RangeRead($oWorkbook, Default)
If @error Then Exit MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Excel UDF:", "Error reading from workbook." & @CRLF & "@error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended)
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Turn on progress GUI
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ProgressOn("Progress", "data washing progress", "0%")
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; counts the number of rows in the array
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$rows = UBound($aArray1) -1
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; script start
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
for $c = 1 to $rows
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Progress calcualtions
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$p=($c-1)/$rows*100
ProgressSet($p,$c-1&" of "&$rows&" records processed")
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Find all id's as per value in column B from workbook in workbook2
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
_Excel_FilterSet($oWorkbook2, Default, Default, 1, ($aArray1[$c][1]))
If @error Then
ContinueLoop
EndIf
_Excel_RangeCopyPaste($oWorkbook2.Worksheets(1), "AM:AN")
_Excel_FilterSet($oWorkbook, Default, Default, 2, ($aArray1[$c][1]))
_Excel_RangeCopyPaste($oWorkbook.Activesheet, Default, "P", Default, $xlPasteValues)
next

Anyone able to see where I have gone wrong or can suggest a better approach to do this?

Edited September 17, 2015 by padinski

[water]

Do you get an error or does it just not give the desired result?

[junkew]

Why do you write this in autoit and not in vba macro. Much easier and much quicker.

 

 

[padinski]

thanks for taking a look guys, just not the desired result Water.
Junkew good point.

FYI:  I ended up just combining the two workbooks into one and having the data on 2 worksheets, just using the following array formula in excel:

In cell P2 in Sheet1
=INDEX('Sheet2'!AM:AM, MATCH(B2, 'Sheet2'!A:A, 0))

In cell Q2 in Sheet1
=INDEX('Sheet2'!AN:AN, MATCH(B2, 'Sheet2'!A:A, 0))