Excel VBS and AutoIt

[xcaliber13]

In VBS  you can import a text file into Excel with a xlFixedWidth    Example:

 objExcel.Workbooks.OpenText "C:\temp\temp2.txt",,,xlFixedWidth,,,,,,,,, _
    Array(Array(0, xlTextFormat),Array(8, xlTextFormat),Array(20, xlTextFormat),Array(31, xlTextFormat))

This lets me define the start and end of each column and the format of that column. Can I define the start and end of each column using

_Excel_BookOpenText($oExcel, $sTextFile, Default, $xlFixedWidth) ?

Thank you
 

[water]

According to MSDN you need to specify the starting position and the type in an array as described for xlDelimited in Example 1 of _Excel_BookOpenText.
Details can be found here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff837097(v=office.14).aspx Section: Remarks - FieldInfo paramter Information

[xcaliber13]

Water,

            Just getting back to this one.  Sorry for the delay.   So in Example 1  of _Excel_BookOpenText

Local $aField1[2] = [1, $xlTextFormat]
Local $aField2[2] = [2, $xlTextFormat]
Local $aField3[2] = [3, $xlGeneralFormat]
Local $aField4[2] = [4, $xlDMYFormat]
Local $aField5[2] = [5, $xlTextFormat]
Local $aFieldInfo[5] = [$aField1, $aField2, $aField3, $aField4, $aField5]

$aField1[2]  <---    Is this the number [2] that is the starting position of the column?  If not  then where do I put the starting position of each column?

Like the first column starts at position 0,  the second column starts at position 20,  the third column starts at position 30  

 

Thank you

[water]

Yes. According to the help file:

$aFieldInfo

[optional] An array containing parse information for individual columns of data.     The interpretation depends on the value of DataType.     When the data is delimited, this argument is an array of two-element arrays, with each two-element array     specifying the conversion options for a particular column.     The first element is the column number (1-based), and the second element is one of the XlColumnDataType     constants specifying how the column is parsed (default = keyword Default)