I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

"Dan T" .(donotspam) wrote in message
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I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const
expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid
literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

Hi Dan,

The first instance is the one you want, but you have the function name
spelled wrong. It's Chr not Char. You can't use the results of a function to
create a constant, so the second option will not work.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
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"Rob Bovey" wrote:

"Dan T" .(donotspam) wrote in message
...
I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const
expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid
literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

Hi Dan,

The first instance is the one you want, but you have the function name
spelled wrong. It's Chr not Char. You can't use the results of a function to
create a constant, so the second option will not work.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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Thanks rob that worked, but I thought it would replace the commas and quotes with the Tab, how do I remove the commas and quotes so I just have the Tab?

"Rob Bovey" wrote:

"Dan T" .(donotspam) wrote in message
...
I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const
expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid
literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

Hi Dan,

The first instance is the one you want, but you have the function name
spelled wrong. It's Chr not Char. You can't use the results of a function to
create a constant, so the second option will not work.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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Thanks Rob, that worked, but I thought it would replace the commas and quotes with the tab. How do I have just a Tab delimiter without the quotes and commas?

And you could even just use:
vbTab
it's a constant builtin to VBA.

Const DELIMITER As String = vbTab

(And if delimiter isn't going to change in future versions, vbtab is quicker to
type!)

Dan T wrote:

I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

--

Dave Peterson

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

And you could even just use:
vbTab
it's a constant builtin to VBA.

Const DELIMITER As String = vbTab

(And if delimiter isn't going to change in future versions, vbtab is quicker to
type!)

Dan T wrote:

I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

--

Dave Peterson



Still has commas and quotes, just adds tab to it. It there a way to just have the tab without the commas or quotes.

I'm not sure what you're doing, but maybe this'll give you some ideas:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()

Dim myRow As Range
Dim myCell As Range
Dim wks As Worksheet

Dim myFileName As String
Dim FileNum As Long
Dim myLine As String

myFileName = "C:\test.txt"

Set wks = Worksheets("sheet1")

With wks

FileNum = FreeFile
Close FileNum
Open myFileName For Output As FileNum

For Each myRow In .UsedRange.Rows
myLine = ""
For Each myCell In myRow.Cells
myLine = myLine & vbTab & myCell.Text
Next myCell
If myLine < "" Then
Print #FileNum, Mid(myLine, 2)
End If
Next myRow
Close FileNum
End With

End Sub

If this doesn't help, there's lots of code you might want to look at to help:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/
Look for Text Write in the left hand frame.

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm

J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html

(Although DELIMITER in all caps looks like J.E.'s code to start.)

Dan T wrote:

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

And you could even just use:
vbTab
it's a constant builtin to VBA.

Const DELIMITER As String = vbTab

(And if delimiter isn't going to change in future versions, vbtab is quicker to
type!)

Dan T wrote:

I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

--

Dave Peterson



Still has commas and quotes, just adds tab to it. It there a way to just have the tab without the commas or quotes.

--

Dave Peterson

Why not post the code you use to write the file and perhaps someone can
suggest where you need to make changes.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Dan T" .(donotspam) wrote in message
...


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

And you could even just use:
vbTab
it's a constant builtin to VBA.

Const DELIMITER As String = vbTab

(And if delimiter isn't going to change in future versions, vbtab is
quicker to
type!)

Dan T wrote:

I'm writing a routine to write to a test file. I've had two
suggestions;
delimiter=Char(9). This gives me an invalid function all. And;
Const DELIMITER As String = CHR(9), this gives me an error of "Const
expression required"
It does not seem to be accepting the chr(9) or the char(9) as a valid
literal to set the delimiter to.
Any ideas why?

--

Dave Peterson



Still has commas and quotes, just adds tab to it. It there a way to just
have the tab without the commas or quotes.