Extracting data from Excel To Illustrator javascript or vbscript

Question

Hi all-
I was wondering if there was a way to extract data from Excel to be used in Illustrator. I know there is an option of variables and xml, and I don't want that. I've seen and tried out how to read illustrator and write to excel, and I get that.  What I would like to do is pretty much the opposite:
1.Pre-fill in an Excel file(.xls,.csv, doesn't matter) with data such as a filename in column 1 and (Replacement Text) in column 2 and close manually.
2. Run script(VBSCRIPT,Javascript, doesn't matter)
3.For each column in Excel file where cell in first column is not empty, open Illustrator Template with placeholder of "DWG" textframe and replace the frame titled "DWG" with Replacement text from Excel in Column2.
4, Save each to a PDF file and name file with text from Excel Column1(Filename)
In a nutshell, there will be a single illustrator template with a premade textFrame with a name of "DWG". Excel will contain two columns, one for the filename to be named and one for the relative text to replace with the placeholder in AI. I hoped I explained this well enough without causing too much confusion. Thanks in advance.
Filename
Replacement Text
test1.pdf
DWG01
test2.pdf
DWG02
test3.pdf
DWG03
test4.pdf
DWG04

Answer 1

As text… \n is new line character and \r is return character. I can't remember which excel uses but they both equate to a line/paragraph… I very quickly threw together an example for you…
#target Illustrator
textToPDF();
function textToPDF() {
          if ( app.documents.length == 0 ) { return; }
          var doc, csvFile, i, fileArray, opts;
          csvFile = File( '~/Desktop/ScriptTest/Test.csv' );
          if ( !csvFile.exists ) { return; }
          fileArray = readInCSV( csvFile );
          doc = app.activeDocument;
          opts = new PDFSaveOptions();
          opts.pDFPreset = '[Press Quality]';
          // Here we loop the main array
          for ( i = 0; i < fileArray.length; i++ ) {
                    // Here we get the second item of sub array i
                    doc.textFrames.getByName( 'DWG' ).contents = fileArray[i].[1];
                    // Here we get the first item of sub array i
                    doc.saveAs( File( fileArray[i].[0] ), opts );
function readInCSV( fileObj ) {
          var fileArray, thisLine, csvArray;
          fileArray =[];
          fileObj.open( 'r' );
          while( !fileObj.eof ) {
                    thisLine = fileObj.readln();
                    csvArray = thisLine.split( ',' );
                    fileArray.push( csvArray );
          fileObj.close();
          return fileArray;
I haven't tested it but it should be close…?