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merge excel files into csv

I have a bunch of xlsx files in a directory, I was able to get a vb utility that is able to convert them one at a time into a csv file.
I need help to find a way to loo[p through the directory and convert all files of a similar kind- say *.load.xlsx into load.csv

Any help will be appreciated, here's what the vbscript takes as its input

EXCEL_CVS.vbs load1.xlsx load1.csv

I am guessing once I have the individual files converted i could do a copy to merge the CSV files

Thanks!

HainKurt

then to join all csv files into one

del destination_path\ConcatenatedFiles.csv
TYPE *.csv >> destination_path\ConcatenatedFiles.csv

or you can do some fancy things and create one per day with YYYYMMDD.csv (need some work here)

Qlemo

Not really. Each CSV will contain header info, and that should be removed but for the very first file when combining them.
The trivial, but time consuming approach as a .cmd batch not changing anything is:

@echo off
del load.csv
for %%F in (*load.xlsx) do (
  cscript //nologo excel_cvs.vbs %%F temp.csv
  if not exist load.csv ( ren temp.csv load.csv ) else ( more +1 <temp.csv >>load.csv )
)
del temp.csv

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chetan1981

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Thanks, I tried FOR "/f "delims=" %%i IN ('DIR *.xlsx /b') DO ExcelToCSV.vbs "%%i" "%%i.csv""
I am getting a syntax error -

%%i was unexpected at this time.

Sorry Batch scripting is not my strong suite, any pointers?

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Qlemo

Noone told you to use FOR /F. You can do, but that is oversized, a simple FOR does the job well.
The error is that you added a double quote infront of /F.

chetan1981

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Thanks for your suggestion, I was able to get it to run, but the EXCEL_CVS reports the file is not found.
The file name is correct. I am guessing this might be because the vbs and the excel file are in different folders. Also the source for the excel is a UNC path.

Thanks so much for your help and your patience.

Steve Knight

From Qlemo's suggestion you may just need " "around the %%F variable... instead of just %%F try "%%~F" depends what is in this VBScript and what it reads from the commandline

It would also be quite possible to adjust the VBScript to pickup all the XLSX files in the subdir, or indeed use another XLSX file to do the work.... e.g. my script here will take a number of other Excel files, open them and print them. That could soon be used to save-as to CSV instead etc. if wanted I can change.

http://scripts.dragon-it.co.uk/links/excel-batch-print

Steve

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chetan1981

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I tried it, it maps a drive to the source. Just to be sure i put the VBS on the share as well.
Still getting the same error, The error now has the mapped drive as the location of the vbs though.

Thanks

Here's how I tried it, PUSHD mapped the share to the W:\-

pushd \\Stage\Source Data\incoming

FOR /f "delims=" %%i IN ('DIR *.xlsx /b') DO XLSToCSV.vbs "%%i" "%%i.csv"

popd

chetan1981

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Did some research, and looks like the message is from excel. Any ideas why excel is not able to locate the source?

Thanks.
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chetan1981

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Got you, dont hae a preference either way, will try your advice...thanks

chetan1981

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Works! Thanks!.

really appreciate the help .