Parse Text File To Provide Specific Table Like Format
Jun 10, 2009I need help urgently for parsing a text file to have a specific format. The text file is of format mentioned below: ...
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Aug 30, 2006I have a text file with no discernable format ( can't import into excel) that is too large to put all the data into an excel worksheet. This file is made to print out on a network printer.
I don't need all the info in the file, I would like to specify a variable, search the text file for the variable, then specify the amount of rows down to look for the data value and input the result into an excel spreadsheet.
Import/parse Text File
Feb 16, 2009I need 3 columns - Title - HD - Channel. If no value for HD, the field would be blank.
Data looks like this in txt file:
> A&E HD 265
> ABC Family HD 311
> Altitude Sports and Entertainment HD 681
> American Movie Classics (AMC) 254
> Animal Planet HD 282
> BBC America 264
> BET Jazz 330
> BYU TV 374
> Big Ten Network HD 220
> Black Entertainment Television (BET) 329
> Bloomberg Television 353
> Boomerang 298
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
> Animal Planet HD 282
> BBC America 264
Parse And Import Text File
Jan 29, 2007I have a software application that imports audio files and writes information about these files to text files. I'm trying to write and Excel/VBA application that will parse and import the data contained in these files. find a sample of one of these files attached. The big hurdle I am facing is I cannot figure out how to parse this file - the delimiter keeps changing as throughout the file (see example below):
otrk ´ptrk ¬
otrk Îptrk Æ
otrk Ôptrk Ì
otrk âptrk Ú
otrk *ptrk "
otrk Øptrk Ð
otrk þptrk ö
otrk ´ptrk ¬
otrk ptrk
otrk Ðptrk È
otrk Þptrk Ö
otrk þptrk ö
otrk ptrk
otrk îptrk æ
otrk ptrk
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Apr 2, 20071. Open a text file from a directory on my computer
2. Feed the data into a Excel spreadsheet
3. Parse the text from the text file into columns
an example of some of the stuff in the text file (its all fake btw )
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?,,
Is it possible to feed all this data into excel into seperate rows and then start parsing it into columns of
IP Username Date Time KbUsage URL
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Nov 29, 2005In MS Excel, I find that when the zoom is dropped to 50% the fonts in the
list become unreadable. Is there anyway that the fonts in the list have the
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Format Number To Text With Specific Format
Sep 14, 2007I'll get straight to the point: How can I change this text format from 474556788 to 0-47455678-8 (dash added after 0 and before the last number). I need to apply this to around 5000 rows (can't do that manualy). I want it to be int his format:
474556788 to 047-455678-8
Tks Auto Merged Post;474556788 to 047-455678-8 (This is the wanted format)
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Feb 2, 2012I'm looking to generate a chart out of a table of data. I want the Y-axis to show a percentage return on an investment.
On the x-axis I want to have a range of scenarios from a market average return of -40% to +40%. Obviously, I wish for 0% to sit in the middle of the x-axis.
I'd want to have 3 lines observable in the chart. I'd be looking to build the above out of a table almost exactly like this:
Market ReturnDeposit90% Model100% Model403.51412303.51211203.5910103.57803.543-103.520-203.5-1-3-303.5-4-5-403.5-8-9
VLook Up Specific Text Within Text And Output Match From Table
Dec 3, 2009Table 1:
I like to go to Berlin.
You like to move to Amsterdam.
They want to see Chicago.
When will the reach San Francisco.
Table 2:
Amsterdam
Chicago
San Francisco
Berlin
What I want to do:
I want my function to see if the text in Table 1 contains a value in Table 2, and if yes, output that value.
Desired Result:
Row A1:
I like to go to Berlin.
Row A2:
Berlin
Row B1:
You like to move to Amsterdam.
Row B2:
Amsterdam
File Too Big...way To Parse Out Data And Write To Csv
Feb 12, 2010I have a file with multiple tabs of data...lot's of data (each tab has 80,000+ lines and 23 columns...3 are formulas, the rest is imported data). I've brought Excel to it's knees (i.e. crashes). Yes, I'm using 2007.
What I'm trying to do is extract 6 cells of data from every 10th line and write it out to a CSV file with two more pieces of information (same for each line).
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.
First, in retrospect, that was a waste of time. Second, the addition of the extra worksheets to do the parsing was crashing Excel due to the extreme size of the workbook.
What I'd like to do is use a macro to do all of this in one swell foop:
1) Prompt me for a file name (or I can put the desired name in a cell and read it from there if that simplifies the code)
2) Open a new text file with that name and ".csv" extension in the same folder as the original workbook
3) Write out the column headers: (Fix, Satellites, Lat, Lon, alt (ft), Date, utc_t, course)
4) Step through each row, looking at the text contents of column B (looks like 22:50:07.100)...if it ends in ".000" do the following:
4a) write "PPS,4," to the open text file
4b) write the cell contents from columns "V", "W", "J", "C", "B", and "L" to the text file in the exact format they appear in the text cell.
The output file should look like (very short example):
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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Jul 10, 2006I'm trying to parse an output file from x-12-arima using vba. The file is in this format
.....
invalidate the results of this test For the last three year period.
ICMETI, Total Inventories Communications Equipment PAGE 9, SERIES foo
D 12 Final trend cycle
From 2002.Jan To 2005.Dec
Observations 48
Trend filter 13-term Henderson moving average
I/C ratio 1.08 .............
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Mar 13, 2008I have a function that locates a table on a webpage and pulls the html code into one cell in a worksheet. Basically we can call this one cell a text file. I need to parse through this text file (cell A1) to create a table. This text file only has info for 1 table, the table always has 12 columns, the rows are variable. I would like it to then write back this parsed text file back into excel as a table, say starting in cell A2 on the same worksheet.
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Nov 29, 2011I am working on modifying this code (below) that I found here: VB Macro to search webpage for text string
Code:
Option Explicit
Public stResultstr As String
Sub SearchForString()
Dim rngURL As Range
Dim cll As Range
Dim stCheck As String
Dim xmlHttp As Object
[Code]...
So right now I have the script prompt you for a URL range, then it asks you for what you want to search for, and I have it set to return the next 10 characters from that found point.
You can see here:
Code:
If InStr(1, stResult, stCheck, vbBinaryCompare) > intt Then
intt = InStr(1, stResult, stCheck, vbBinaryCompare) + Len(stCheck)
I began to create something to identify the last position of the found item because next I want to loop it to find the next occurance of the same thing and return the next 10 characters after it in the next cell to the right in that same row:
Code:
cll.Offset(, 1).Value = stResultstr
Again, what I want to do here is find and parse out every occurence of a string (inputbox) found on a web page url in column A. The parse occurrences will go to the right in cells C though ? for row N.
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Jun 22, 2006I had VBA run a third-party program ("HYD") using data listed in my spreadsheet. HYD produces a textfile and I want to extract a number from that log (line 58, columns 6-10 to be exact).
I started with
Open "C:TempHYDLOG.TXT" For Input As #1
but I don't know how to have it skip down to line 58 or which function to use to extract the number I want. I've read through tons of help files and forums but none of them treat anything as simple as scrolling down to specific lines.
The entire subroutine up to that point is as follows: ....
Entering Specific Text Into Cell Based On Its Format
Apr 13, 2013I'm trying to make a schedule for some of my employees (300 to be exact) and I was trying to work out a way of speeding things up a bit. I've made plenty of pretty complex equations for working with the task but the solution for what I would like to do now alludes me.
Here's the challenge: I have a sheet where I would like to insert employees within row 4 and then have their shifts shown visually in the column below that, and have the hours they work put into a merged cell (or something similar), like what can be seen in the blue cell under "Employee 1" (C6). What I would like to do is just have something like a VBA detect that a series of cells is merged (red cells) and insert the corresponding time, located within B5:B33, into that cell (with same format as the blue cell). Also, above the employee's name I could put a button to run something like a macro to run the program for the corresponding employee directly under that button.
Essentially I want to merge a series of cells, hit a button, and have excel locate and input the correct times within that merged cell.
Parse Flat File And Enter It Into Separate Cells
Jul 12, 2012I 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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Property Address - 1116 South PaxonBorrower " Testa and Son Contractors,LLCLoan # - 1402088Acct Executive " Brandon Tully
But, I need it to be:
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My problem is that this fix works when the file is saved in excel format, but when I save it in CSV format the number reverts to 49.5. How can I convert the original number which appears as 49.5 in the formula bar and is viewed a 00000050 in the file that the sent through. I cannot convert using the text to columns when the file is opened as the other codes in the original file need to maintain the original formatting.
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The string looks like this and runs down an unknown number of rows in one column, Col A.
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I want to parse this so that the results will be text to columns
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