Convert XLS file to CSV

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Hi

I would like to convert an XLS file to CSV when we receive an email.

Also i need to remove the headers and one last column

Can someone let me know how to go about.

Thanks

S

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Hello @srinivass,

Take a look at this:

Regards,
Susana

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I did look at it, but couldn’t find anything in which converts to CSV in the workflow

Is it by just renaming it works.

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Check the destination in Move File activity, is the extension being changed to CSV?

If so, type of conversation might not always work.

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So Am i right in thinking by changing the extension to from XLS to CSV, it will work

In the move destination it says Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(item.ToString)+“.csv”

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If the data is intact after changing the extension, you may use move file.

But since you have to do some manipulation why don’t you convert excel into a data table and convert it to csv after your header and column removal?

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Ok thanks for the suggestion, I do the understand the datatable part of removing headers and column but how to convert

Do you mean I have to use a recording sequence and do save as.

I just tried to rename the xls file to csv and tried to open, i get the following error, if i click yes it opens the file

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ReadRange from Excel file to a DataTable.
Use WriteCSV activity with that DataTable to write it to a CSV file afterwards.

Changing extension might work from a user perspective, but you’re essentially creating a fake csv file.
Yes, you can open it in Excel and it “looks” like a csv, but you can’t treat it as a CSV file - it’s still an .xls file inside. Whatever is supposed to consume that as an input (there has to be a reason why you need to convert it) will most probably crash, since it’s expecting a csv and gets an xls.

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Thank you for the solution.

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Sorry for bumping an old thread. But can you please share with me the xml file about this?
i already try the solution from @andrzej.kniola but can’t produce any results.
is there any example bout this?

Really sorry for bumping this old thread.

Thanks before
Cheers.

Delf

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what do you want exactly, this was something i did couple of months back

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the example .xaml file about this problem. I already tried doing it by myself but can’t get any results.

This is my project
Main.xaml (10.2 KB)
is there anything wrong with this?

Thanks before
Cheers

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I could not convert xls to csv, but had to open the xls file and pick the data from it.

I cant run your xaml file because my UIPath licence has gone past its date.

sorry about that

S

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hi @srinivass

Refer tthe below link for conversion

Regards
Sanjay Shankhla