Excel 2010 - VBA code to Write Formatted Numbers to CSV - vba

Question

I'm working on a 5 sheet workbook, where a button named ExportCSV on sheet 5 exports data on sheet 3. More specifically, the button runs a VBA code that goes row by row and checks the first 3 cells for data. If any of the first three cells have data, then the whole row is selected. After all rows with data are selected, the data is written row by row to a CSV file (the file itself is semicolon-delimited, however).
The problem that I'm having is that some cell formatting is being copied over, but some is not. For example, values in cells formatted for Accounting with a $ are formatted correctly, meaning "$12,345,678.90" shows up as "$12,345,678.90." However, values in cells formatted as Accounting but without $ are not being written to the csv correctly, meaning "12,345,678.90" is being written as "12345678.9."
Below is the Macro in question.
Dim planSheet As Worksheet
Dim temSheet As Worksheet
Private Sub ExportCSV_Click()
Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer
Dim lColumn As Long
Dim intResult As Integer
Dim strPath As String
On Error GoTo Errhandler
Set temSheet = Worksheets(3)
i = 2
Do While i < 1001
j = 1
Do While j < 4
If Not IsEmpty(temSheet.Cells(i, j)) Then
temSheet.Select
lColumn = temSheet.Cells(2, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column
temSheet.Range(temSheet.Cells(2, 1), temSheet.Cells(i, lColumn)).Select
End If
j = j + 1
Loop
i = i + 1
Loop
Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker).InitialFileName = Application.ActiveWorkbook.Path
Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker).Title = "Select a Path"
Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker).ButtonName = "Select Path"
intResult = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker).Show
If intResult <> 0 Then
'dispaly message box
strPath = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker).SelectedItems(1)
End If
Dim X As Long, FF As Long, S() As String
ReDim S(1 To Selection.Rows.Count)
For X = 1 To Selection.Rows.Count
S(X) = Join(WorksheetFunction.Transpose(WorksheetFunction.Transpose(Selection.Rows(X).Value)), ";")
Next
FF = FreeFile
FilePath = strPath & "\Data" & Format(Now(), "yyyyMMddhhmmss") & ".csv"
Open FilePath For Output As #FF
Print #FF, Join(S, vbNewLine)
Close #FF
Errhandler:
...Error Handling Code omitted
End Sub
I need to be able to copy over the exact formatting of the cells. Converting the no-$ cells to $ cells won't work because the values without $ are being used for a calculation later on in the process that can handle the commas, but not a $, and I can't change the code for the later calculation (proprietary plug-in doing the calculation.) Also, the rows have mixed content, meaning some values in the row are text instead of numbers.

Answer 1

I ended up following David Zemens' advice and overhauled the section that was For X = 1 to Selection.Rows.Count See below.
For X = 1 To Selection.Rows.Count
For Y = 1 To Selection.Columns.Count
If Y <> Selection.Columns.Count Then
If IsNumeric(temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Value) Then
If temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Value = 0 Then
S(X) = S(X) & ";"
Else
S(X) = S(X) & Replace(temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Text, " ", "") & ";"
End If
Else
S(X) = S(X) & Trim(temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Text) & ";"
End If
Else
If IsNumeric(temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Value) Then
If temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Value <> 0 Then
S(X) = S(X) & Replace(temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Text, " ", "")
End If
Else
S(X) = S(X) & Trim(temSheet.Cells(X + 1, Y).Text)
End If
End If
Next
Next
Some more formatting was necessary. It goes cell by cell, purposefully skipping the first row of the sheet. The .Text property of some of the cells returned empty space before the value or between the $ and value, so it had to be removed. Trim removes leading and ending spaces while Replace replaces all spaces in the export.