Comments on: How can I use a variable in my macro to import data from as-400 to excel? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-can-i-use-a-variable-in-my-macro-to-import-data-from-as-400-to-excel/ Fri, 24 May 2013 19:50:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: yves695 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-can-i-use-a-variable-in-my-macro-to-import-data-from-as-400-to-excel/#comment-71851 yves695 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:50:22 +0000 #comment-71851 Actually you are right. I was including the variable inside the quotation marks of the string. I corrected it using concatanation resulting in following :

“WHERE (ORDDET01.CUSN=” & var &”)…..

This works beautiful.

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-can-i-use-a-variable-in-my-macro-to-import-data-from-as-400-to-excel/#comment-71843 tomliotta Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:03:02 +0000 #comment-71843 Are you including the quotes around the variable value in the final SELECT string?

That’s simply a first guess because you don’t tell us anything about what error you actually get. For all we know, the error has nothing to do with how you’re inserting the value. Also, you don’t show us the SELECT string that results from inserting your variable value — we can’t tell if the SELECT statement is even correct.

Tom

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