The macro I created works fine, I just need to sort out the saving business. Now I get a popup asking me where to save it, but I would like it to save it under a default name and path AND encoded in UTF-8.
This is my full code I use, the bottom part saves the document I presume.
Public Sub ExportToTextFile(FName As String, Sep As String, SelectionOnly As Boolean, AppendData As Boolean) Dim WholeLine As String Dim fnum As Integer Dim RowNdx As Long Dim ColNdx As Integer Dim StartRow As Long Dim EndRow As Long Dim StartCol As Integer Dim EndCol As Integer Dim CellValue As String Dim teller As Integer 'Teller aangemaakt ter controle voor het aantal velden 'teller = 1 Application.ScreenUpdating = False On Error GoTo EndMacro: fnum = FreeFile If SelectionOnly = True Then With Selection StartRow = .Cells(1).Row StartCol = .Cells(26).Column EndRow = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Row EndCol = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Column End With Else With ActiveSheet.UsedRange StartRow = .Cells(1).Row StartCol = .Cells(26).Column EndRow = .Cells(.Cells.Count).Row EndCol = .Cells(26).Column End With End If If AppendData = True Then Open FName For Append Access Write As #fnum Else Open FName For Output Access Write As #fnum End If For RowNdx = StartRow To EndRow WholeLine = "" For ColNdx = StartCol To EndCol If Cells(RowNdx, ColNdx).Value = "" Then CellValue = "" Else CellValue = Cells(RowNdx, ColNdx).Value End If WholeLine = WholeLine & CellValue & Sep Next ColNdx WholeLine = Left(WholeLine, Len(WholeLine) - Len(Sep)) Print #fnum, WholeLine, "" 'Print #fnum, teller, WholeLine, "" 'teller = teller + 1 Next RowNdx EndMacro: On Error GoTo 0 Application.ScreenUpdating = True Close #fnum End Sub Sub Dump4Mini() Dim FileName As Variant Dim Sep As String FileName = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(InitialFileName:=Blank, filefilter:="Text (*.txt),*.txt") If FileName = False Then Exit Sub End If Sep = "|" If Sep = vbNullString Then Exit Sub End If Debug.Print "FileName: " & FileName, "Separator: " & Sep ExportToTextFile FName:=CStr(FileName), Sep:=CStr(Sep), SelectionOnly:=False, AppendData:=False End Sub
This is what I use to pass http webpages and it returns a string with the correct encoding
Public Function UTF8(ByVal http As Object) As String Dim BinaryStream Const adTypeBinary = 1 Const adTypeText = 2 Const adModeReadWrite = 3 Set BinaryStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") With BinaryStream .Type = adTypeBinary .Open .Write http.responseBody 'Change stream type To binary .Position = 0 .Type = adTypeText 'Specify charset For the source text '.Charset = "iso-8859-1" 'unicode .Charset = "utf-8" 'or utf-16 'Open the stream And get binary data from the object UTF8 = .ReadText End With End Function
Where http in this case is something like Set http = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") but I'm sure you can adapt to fit your needs.
This works with strings and outputs text file directly
Option Explicit Sub test() Dim filePath As String Dim fileName As String Dim charToEncode As String Dim success As Boolean filePath = "C:\Users\ooo\Desktop\" fileName = "test.txt" charToEncode = "Télécom" success = ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile(charToEncode, filePath, fileName) If success Then MsgBox ("Success") Else MsgBox ("Failed") End If End Sub Function ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile(ByVal charToEncode As String, _ ByVal filePath As String, ByVal fileName As String) As Boolean Dim fsT As Object Dim adodbStream As Object On Error GoTo Err: Set adodbStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") With adodbStream .Type = 2 'Stream type .Charset = "utf-8" 'or utf-16 etc .Open .WriteText charToEncode .SaveToFile filePath & fileName, 2 'Save binary data To disk End With ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile = True On Error GoTo 0 Exit Function Err: ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile = False End Function
UPDATE: below code has been updated to create delimited string from a range, encode the string and save to a file.
Option Explicit Sub test() Dim filePath As String Dim fileName As String Dim charToEncode As String Dim encodingType As String Dim success As Boolean Dim rngArray() As Variant filePath = "C:\Users\ooo\Desktop\" fileName = "test.csv" rngArray = Sheet1.Range("A1:E10000").Value encodingType = "utf-8" charToEncode = DelimitRange(rngArray) success = ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile(charToEncode, filePath, fileName, encodingType) If success Then MsgBox ("Success") Else MsgBox ("Failed") End If End Sub Function ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile(ByVal charToEncode As String, _ ByVal filePath As String, ByVal fileName As String, ByVal encodingCharSet As String) As Boolean Dim fsT As Object Dim adodbStream As Object On Error GoTo Err: Set adodbStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") With adodbStream .Type = 2 'Stream type .Charset = encodingCharSet 'or utf-16 etc .Open .WriteText charToEncode .SaveToFile filePath & fileName, 2 'Save binary data To disk End With ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile = True On Error GoTo 0 Exit Function Err: ConvertToUTF8thenSaveToFile = False End Function Function DelimitRange(ByVal XLArray As Variant) As String Const delimiter As String = "," Const lineFeed As String = vbCrLf Const removeExisitingDelimiter As Boolean = True Dim rowCount As Long Dim colCount As Long Dim tempString As String For rowCount = LBound(XLArray, 1) To UBound(XLArray, 1) For colCount = LBound(XLArray, 2) To UBound(XLArray, 2) If removeExisitingDelimiter Then tempString = tempString & Replace(XLArray(rowCount, colCount), delimiter, vbNullString) Else tempString = tempString & XLArray(rowCount, colCount) End If 'Don't add delimiter to column end If colCount
