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Export Visual FoxPro table to Excel using dynamic filename with current date

Want to export Visual FoxPro data to Excel using current date as file name?

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Export Visual FoxPro data to Excel file using dynamic filename with date and time

Login to Visual FoxPro -> Choose Visual FoxPro table -> Set Excel filename template including date -> Export Visual FoxPro to Excel using current date as file name

Choose Visual FoxPro and logon.

“Export From Table” for “Excel to Visual FoxPro“.

Select Excel file type.

1. Choose Visual FoxPro table.

2. Set Excel file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.

3. Preview Excel.

4. Export Visual FoxPro table data to Excel file. Dynamically created Excel file name using present system time.

After exporting, you can view output Excel files.


More about Visual FoxPro to Excel converter

Visual FoxPro → EXCEL reference

Type mapping

Value kindin Visual FoxProin EXCEL
IntNumeric(10,0)1234 (a real numeric cell)
BigintNumeric(19,0)9007199254740993 (exact only while the cell stays text)
DecimalNumeric(p,s)1234.56 (numeric cell, format controls the displayed decimals)
FloatFloat1.234E+10 (numeric cell)
TextCharacter(n)text cell; leading zeros survive only if the column is text
Long textMemotext cell; wraps inside the cell rather than the row
DateDatea serial number plus a date cell format
DatetimeDateTimea serial number plus a date-time cell format
BinaryGeneralnot representable as data
BooleanLogicalTRUE / FALSE (a real boolean cell)
JSON(none)a text cell; the quotes are part of the value

Dialect differences

Visual FoxPro is a database server and EXCEL is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference - the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.

Propertyin Visual FoxProin EXCEL
port(file-based)—
identifiers—Not applicable; a cell holds exactly one value
row limit(driver dependent)—
datesDate (D), DateTime (T)Stored as a serial number; only the cell format makes it lo...
long textMemo (M)—
binaryGeneral (G)Only as text or an embedded object, not as a data column
separator—Cells, not delimiters
encoding—UTF-8 internally, declared in the package
typing—Real cell types: text, number, date, boolean, error
shapeTables of rows and columnsMultiple sheets, each a flat grid
ceiling—1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns per sheet; 255 sheets per w...

No counterpart

  • EXCEL has no equivalent for JSON - it has to be flattened or dropped.

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