Can I import multiple text files into one excel sheet?

Question

I have one folder with multiple text files that I add one text file to every day. All text files are in the same format and are pipe delimited.

Is it possible to c

Answer 1

Sounds like it'd be easiser to run a script to cycle thru all the files in the directory, create a new file composed of all the files' contents as new lines, and save that as a csv. something like:

import os

basedir='c://your_root_dir'
dest_csv=".csv"
dest_list=[]


for root, subs, files in  os.walk(basedir):
    for f in files:
        thisfile=open(basedir+f)
        contents=thisfile.readlines()
        dest_list.append(contents)

#all that would create a list containing the contents of all the files in the directory
#now we'll write it as a csv

f_csv=open(dest_csv,'w')
for i in range(len(dest_list)):
     f_csv.write(dest_list[i])
f_csv.close()

You could save a script like that somewhere and run it each day, then open the resulting csv in excel. This assumes that you want to get the data from each file in a particular directory, and that all the files you need are in one directory.