I have a pipe delimited file with an extension txt. I am using UiPath invoke code (basically I am using VB.net coding) to either read the file into a datatable variable. While Uipath has inbuilt activities to read CSV files, it doesn't work for many rows. I tried with few rows (about 10-20) and it works, but for about 1000-2000 rows, it gives me error that CSV file format in invalid. I am looking for a VB function to either convert the Pipe delimited txt file to a workbook xlsx file. Please help!
Thanks in advance!
It does not matter which file extention (TXT/CSV/...) it is. The steps to solve your issue are simple:
Use the Read CSV activity
Set the path of the file here
Here you set the Delimiter to your Pipe
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I´ve developed an application in C#, which adjusts logfiles. Special information from a given logfile will be put together to a new csv file.
Writing in the first line of the CSV file "sep=\t" causes that Excel uses the tab as seperator and not the comma.
Is there anything similiar so that my generated Excel file will automatically be encoded with UTF-8?
One solution is that I set my StreamWriter to Encoding.Unicode.
But then in the first line of my Excelfile "sep=" is shown.
Earlier without that configuration the line was hidden.
What can I do that both is fulfilled. The tab as seperator and Unicode as encoding.
Many thanks in advance.
"sep=\t" has to be in Quotes.
csvwriter.WriteToFileSingleString("\"sep=\t\"");
I am trying to process a data base, which is in .sav format, on excel.
I have converted sav to csv online: through http://pspp.benpfaff.org/ but I get csv text, not a file.
How can I import this into excel so that it reads it as columns? otherwise I have the text in commas.
Thank you!
I have found the easiest method after online conversion is to save the resulting text as a .txt file. From there you will open Excel-->File-->Import
If your data has headers you will select that option, but the main thing is to set the delimiter as comma and then hit finish. It should retain the data structure initially found in your SPSS file.
Would like to ask if how to convert a .csv file generated from macro to .txt file?
I have this Excel macro that gathers data from the website and create a table and output it to a .csv file, but for some reason I wasn't able to copy its contents to an existing .csv file as it returned special characters instead of the correct output.
Please help me, with the program I am currently doing.
A csv file is a text file. U can just change the extension like this
Name "C:\\**\\a.csv" As "C:\\**\\a.txt"
I am downloading an excel attachment from an email using a tool and converting that file to CSV Using VB Script. The problem I am facing is, after converting the file to CSV, when I try to open the file using notepad, it shows boxes instead of the correct data. But the same file if opened using an excel then it returns the correct data.
But if I create a mew CSV file and open it with notepad I am not facing this problem. kindly help me !!!
Without looking at your script, I would guess that the file is simply renamed to a .csv file - but not actually converted! This way, you would end up seeing the binary data in Notepad.
Try to open the original Excel file in Excel - and there save it as .csv. This will surely work, i.e. you'll see the data in Notepad.
If that does not help, please share your script.
The columns in a csv file are grouped together into column A if
the file has a different extension other than .csv
I have to use Data > Text To Columns and change the delimiter from '\t' to ','
to format the contents properly.
Can I tell Excel say to treat .ext as a .csv file?
In these cases, I've usually removed the extension from the file altogether. In Excel 2007, if I take a file filename.ext and change that to filename before opening it, it forces Excel's Text Import Wizard to open:
Other than that, I don't know of an Excel setting to map file extensions to specific behaviors.
Have you tried clicking on the all files dropdown menu when you navigate to the file?