Parse Flat File And Enter It Into Separate Cells
Jul 12, 2012
I receive a flat text file every week which I would like to grab with excel and extract only the data I need and enter the data into separate cells and loop until I reach the end of the flat file. I got a subroutine written that allows me to open my text file and it will enter all the data however I need to know how to parse only the stuff I need and enter it into the right cells and loop until I reach the end of my text file. Here is what I have so far:
Sub testFSNew()
Dim fs As Object ' scripting.filesystemobject
Dim txtIn As Object ' scripting.textstream
Dim strFile As String 'File Name
Dim strLine As String 'Current line being read.
[code].....
Now so far this opens the text file and dumps all the data into an excel spreadsheet however when I say all I mean it dumps everything into the first cell and does not separate it, the following is an example of the text in the flat file. I will only put in the first 5 rows because their is 5000 rows in the real file.
HDR20120710
001010000366175270012008085197804171984102919730621DOE BJ52702B25713700000000016005
00101000036617JOHN 109080 55512345671978093000000001MACHINE REPAIR 4
001010000997885270002010384198910301989103019891030SMITH DS52501C257077S0000000000005
00101000099788ROBERT 109109 55523456781999082700000001ELECTICIAN-PROJECT COORD 4
Ok so the first problem is I don't need the first line it's a header line and if you will notice everyline of the file ends with either a 5 or a 4 but it is information about each employee, so the next line would end in a 5 and that would be the beginning of the next employee.
P.S. I noticed in the preview post that this message board truncated my flat file data, so keep in mind that each line is indeed 1 line ending in either 5 or a 4
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Oct 6, 2012
VB:
Sub CreateFlat()
Dim wsData As Worksheet
Dim wsNew As Worksheet
[Code].....
In 2006 posting, this code was presented to the Forum. It works perfectly for a one dimension Crosstab. I have 4 dimensions that I need copied to the output.
I have attempted to modify the code, but nothing appears to adjust the pull of more than the first column of dimension data.
see the attached spreadsheet for the Crosstab data and desired output.
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J2 - You must enter the salesperson's name
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J5 - You must enter the customer's address
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I need 3 columns - Title - HD - Channel. If no value for HD, the field would be blank.
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Needs to look like this in Excel
> Should look like:
> A&E HD 265
> ABC Family HD 311
> Altitude Sports and Entertainment HD 681
> American Movie Classics (AMC) 254
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> BBC America 264
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What I was doing was creating a separate worksheet for each one to be extracted, parsing out the data, and then copying that data to yet another workbook that was then saved as a CSV.
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Fix,Satellites,Lat,Lon,alt (ft),Date,utc_t,course
PPS,4,30.543203,-86.323328,1419.04,2009/12/17,23:26:22.000,243.95
PPS,4,30.539272,-86.332765,1831.53,2009/12/17,23:26:34.000,242.61
PPS,4,30.535680,-86.340912,2281.16,2009/12/17,23:26:44.000,244.34
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invalidate the results of this test For the last three year period.
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D 12 Final trend cycle
From 2002.Jan To 2005.Dec
Observations 48
Trend filter 13-term Henderson moving average
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otrk ´ptrk ¬
otrk Îptrk Æ
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otrk Øptrk Ð
otrk þptrk ö
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otrk Ðptrk È
otrk Þptrk Ö
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otrk ptrk
otrk îptrk æ
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192.168.1.216,,,
J2MARTIN,20/08/1999,8:57:27 a.m.,
372,http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?,,
192.168.1.216,,,
J2MARTIN,20/08/1999,8:57:27 a.m.,
326,http://home.microsoft.com/,,
192.168.1.216,,,
J2MARTIN,20/08/1999,8:57:29 a.m.,
37014,http://www.msn.com/default.asp?,,
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IP Username Date Time KbUsage URL
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VB:
Sub Create_Subfiles()
Dim FDMName As String
Dim FBName As String
Dim DIYName As String
Dim WMName As String
[Code] .....
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