Using excel to run a script repeatedly

[dm83737]

This is probably somehwere in here, but I am just not wording my search correctly. I am pretty new to AutoIt, and it's great. I have past experience with Quicktest Pro from a past job, and one thing I am trying to use AutoIt for is the same type of task QTP did. We set up QTP to run a script and then whenever we had to enter an account number, it pulled from an excel spreadsheet and kept doing this in a loop until all policy numbers were exhausted.

Is there a way to set this up in AutoIt? Again, I have a feeling this is real easy for all you seasoned vets, I just haven't looked in the right place yet.

Thanks for your help

[dm83737]

I forgot to add that if there is a better way other than through Excel, I would love to hear that as well.

[PsaltyDS]

This is probably somehwere in here, but I am just not wording my search correctly. I am pretty new to AutoIt, and it's great. I have past experience with Quicktest Pro from a past job, and one thing I am trying to use AutoIt for is the same type of task QTP did. We set up QTP to run a script and then whenever we had to enter an account number, it pulled from an excel spreadsheet and kept doing this in a loop until all policy numbers were exhausted.

Is there a way to set this up in AutoIt? Again, I have a feeling this is real easy for all you seasoned vets, I just haven't looked in the right place yet.

Thanks for your help

You could do it easily with the _Excel* functions of the Excel.au3 UDF (see the help file).

An .xls file can also be opened and read as a DB by an ADO.Connection object (I think ptrex posted an example somewhere).