ello

I understand this is a fairly common problem, but I'm yet to find a reliable solution.

I have data in a csv file with the first column formatted dd/mm/yyyy. When I open it with Workbooks.OpenText it defaults to mm/dd/yyyy until it figures out that what it thinks is the month exceeds 12, then reverts to dd/mm/yyyy.

This is my test code, which tries to force it as xlDMYFormat, and I've also tried the text format. I understand this problem only applies to *.csv files, not *.txt, but that isn't an acceptable solution.

Option Base 1
Sub TestImport()

Filename = "test.csv"

Dim ColumnArray(1 To 1, 1 To 2)

ColumnsDesired = Array(1)
DataTypeArray = Array(xlDMYFormat)

' populate the array for fieldinfo
For x = LBound(ColumnsDesired) To UBound(ColumnsDesired)
    ColumnArray(x, 1) = ColumnsDesired(x)
    ColumnArray(x, 2) = DataTypeArray(x)
Next x

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=Filename, DataType:=xlDelimited, Comma:=True, FieldInfo:=ColumnArray

End Sub

test.csv contains:

Date
11/03/2010
12/03/2010
13/03/2010
14/03/2010
15/03/2010
16/03/2010
17/03/2010

Thanks

Michael