[RESOLVED] Open and Process Tab Delimited Text File

This may be a simple matter, but I'm rather stumped.

I have a tab delimited text file from which I want to extract only two 'columns'

The rest I don't care about.

How do I do this? I've looked at using the File System Object, but it seems to be lacking a method for handling tab delimiting.

Help?

Whether you use the FSO or the old-school file processing methods, the idea is that you need to read one record, or line, from the file at a time, and break it up, or parse it, by the tab delimiter. The easiest way to do that is with the Split function. Here's an example using the old-school file processing methods:

Code:

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Dim strInputRec        As String
Dim astrInputFields() As String

Open "C:\SomeDir\MyFile.txt" For Input As #1
Do Until EOF(1)
    Line Input #1, strInputRec
    astrInputFields = Split(strInputRec, vbTab)
    ' you can now process the fields.
    ' astrInputFields(0) will be the first field, (1) will be the second, etc.
Loop
Close #1

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Once you have a line from the file (or even the whole file), you can do somthing like

Code:

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Dim strParts() As String

strParts = Split(MyData, vbTab)

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strParts(0) will then contain the first piece of data, strParts(1) the 2nd, etc.

Believe it or not, I figured it out and wrote almost identical code to what you did. It's been so long since I used an "Open x For Input" statement I had to look it all up!

Thanks so much for your reply. I appreciate it!