Spreadsheet to multiple txt files with specified names - excel

I'm looking for a way to export text from a cells in a spreadsheet into multiple '.txt' files. The trick is that each .txt file would contain text from one cell from specified column and it would be named using text from one cell from other specified column.
Example Spreadsheet:
Names text extra-info
John 15684 Spring
Sally 54645 Autumn
Mark 45545 Winter
From this example three .txt files should be created.
Named:
John.txt
Sally.txt
Mark.txt
and containing relevant numbers. ex 15684 inside Jonh.txt.
The spreadsheet is a google spreadsheet at the moment but we have access to open office and excel as long as one of them can do that job.


This should be pretty straightforward. Do you know how to begin writing an App Script? I don't mean to sound condescending, but since you didn't post code, I don't know exactly where you need help.
I'd use the Spreadsheet service to gather the data from your spreadsheet:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/range#getValues()
Then you'd iterate through each row and create a new file using the createFile() method in DriveApp for the contents:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/drive/drive-app#createFile(String,String,String)
All of the resulting files will be in the root folder of Drive.

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