QueryTable.TextFileOtherDelimiter Property

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Returns or sets the character used as the delimiter when you import a text file into a query table. The default value is null. Read/write String.

Syntax

expression.TextFileOtherDelimiter

expression   A variable that represents a QueryTable object.

Remarks

Use this property only when your query table is based on data from a text file (with the QueryType property set to xlTextImport), and only if the value of the TextFileParseType property is xlDelimited.

If you specify more than one character in the string, only the first character is used.

If you import data using the user interface, data from a Web query or a text query is imported as a QueryTable object, while all other external data is imported as a ListObject object.

If you import data using the object model, data from a Web query or a text query must be imported as a QueryTable, while all other external data can be imported as either a ListObject or a QueryTable.

The TextFileOtherDelimiter property applies only to QueryTable objects.

Example

This example sets the pound character (#) to be the delimiter for the query table on the first worksheet in the first workbook, and then it refreshes the query table.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Set shFirstQtr = Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1) 
Set qtQtrResults = shFirstQtr.QueryTables _
    .Add(Connection := "TEXT;C:\My Documents\19980331.txt", _
        Destination := shFirstQtr.Cells(1,1))
With qtQtrResults
    .TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
    .TextFileOtherDelimiter = "#"
    .Refresh
End With

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