Not using VB6 for 1.5 years has made me week

I'm trying to remember how to read in a text file, without using the FSO's.

This is actually for an Excel VBA macro, and I don't want to have to install the anything on the user's system, other can copying an Excel file.

I'm able to open the file and read all of the test names in just fine.

The file basically looks like this

Test1
Test2
Test3


Those names are actually much longer and proprietary, but these will do for the example.


This is what I've started with, but it's not working.

List of tests looks like this "test1 test2 test3"
each test name is separated by a vbCr

Code:

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Private Sub SeparateTestnames(listofTests As String)

Dim newtest As clsTestDescription
Dim curTest As String
Dim startLoc As Long
Dim endLoc As Long

  curTest = ""

  startLoc = 1

  Do
      endLoc = InStr(startLoc, listofTests, vbCr, vbTextCompare)
      Set newtest = New clsTestDescription
      curTest = LTrim(Mid$(listofTests, startLoc, endLoc))
      newtest.letTestname = curTest
      colAlltests.Add newtest  '  this collection is defined in class initialize
      startLoc = endLoc + 1

  Loop Until (startLoc >= Len(listofTests))


End Sub

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The call to Mid$ is returning Test1 Test2
on the same line.

I want to parse each test name separately, then stick one test name into the class, and that class into a collection.

Am I very far off?
thanks

Load the file, and then SPLIT() it up.

This should give you some ideas. It splits the file on chr(13), and then adds two vbcrlf's for each one.

Do not use FSO as it requires a dependancy file to be distributed with your workbook/app.

Use dglienna's example to read in a text file with no dependancies if all done within VBA

Quote:

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Originally Posted by dglienna

Load the file, and then SPLIT() it up.

This should give you some ideas. It splits the file on chr(13), and then adds two vbcrlf's for each one.

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OH YES, Splittttttttttttttt()!. It's all coming back, slowly now ;-)

I use split almost daily, when I code in Python


Thanks for the memories :-)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by dglienna

Load the file, and then SPLIT() it up.

This should give you some ideas. It splits the file on chr(13), and then adds two vbcrlf's for each one.

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This works great. Just finished implementing it