How to populate data from .txt file into Excel in VBA?
- by swei
I'm trying to create something to read data from a .txt file, then populate data into .xls, but after open the .txt file, how do I get the data out? Basically I'm trying to get the the third column of the lines dated '04/06/2010'. After I open the .txt file, when I use ActiveSheet.Cells(row, col), the ActiveSheet is not pointing to .txt file.
My .txt file is like this (space delimited):
04/05/10 23 29226
04/05/10 24 26942
04/06/10 1 23166
04/06/10 2 22072
04/06/10 3 21583
04/06/10 4 21390
Here is the code I have:
Dim BidDate As Date
BidDate = '4/6/2010'
Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=ForecastFile, StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, Space:=True
If Err.Number = 1004 Then
MsgBox ("The forecast file " & ForecastFile & " was not found.")
Exit Sub
End If
On Error GoTo 0
Dim row As Integer, col As Integer
row = 1
col = 1
cell_value = activeSheet.Cells(row, col)
MsgBox ("the cell_value=" & cell_value)
Do While (cell_value <> BidDate) And (cell_value <> "")
row = row + 1
cell_value = activeSheet.Cells(row, col)
' MsgBox ("the value is " & cell_value)
Loop
If cell_value = "" Then
MsgBox ("A load forecast for " & BidDate & " was not found in your current load forecast file titled '" + ForecastFile + ". " + "Make sure you have a load forecast for the current bid date and then open this spreadsheet again.")
ActiveWindow.Close
Exit Sub
End If
Can anyone point out where it goes wrong here?
