How to read multiple text files into excel?
Hi,
I have amended the code to remove an un necessary test, and to open the
selected files.
Just copy the code below and paste in to a normal code module. Then run the
macro ProcessFiles. It will prompt you to select a directory, and when you
do, it will open all files in that directory. It won't do anything with them
other than open them , that's up to you
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "SHGetPathFromIDListA" _
(ByVal pidl As Long, _
ByVal pszPath As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SHBrowseForFolder Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "SHBrowseForFolderA" _
(lpBrowseInfo As BROWSEINFO) As Long
Private Type BROWSEINFO
hOwner As Long
pidlRoot As Long
pszDisplayName As String
lpszTitle As String
ulFlags As Long
lpfn As Long
lParam As Long
iImage As Long
End Type
Dim FSO As Object
Sub ProcessFiles()
Dim i As Long
Dim sFolder As String
Dim fldr As Object
Dim Folder As Object
Dim file As Object
Dim Files As Object
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sFolder = GetFolder()
If sFolder < "" Then
Set Folder = FSO.GetFolder(sFolder)
Set Files = Folder.Files
For Each file In Files
If file.Type = "Text Document" Then
Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=file.path, _
Origin:=xlMSDOS, _
StartRow:=1, _
DataType:=xlDelimited, _
ConsecutiveDelimiter:=True, _
Space:=True
End If
Next file
End If ' sFolder < ""
End Sub
'-------------------------------------------------------------
Function GetFolder(Optional ByVal Name)
'-------------------------------------------------------------
Dim bInfo As BROWSEINFO
Dim path As String
Dim oDialog As Long
If IsMissing(Name) Then Name = "Select a folder."
bInfo.pidlRoot = 0& 'Root folder = Desktop
bInfo.lpszTitle = Name
bInfo.ulFlags = &H1 'Type of directory to Return
oDialog = SHBrowseForFolder(bInfo) 'display the dialog
'Parse the result
path = Space$(512)
GetFolder = ""
If SHGetPathFromIDList(ByVal oDialog, ByVal path) Then
GetFolder = Left(path, InStr(path, Chr$(0)) - 1)
End If
End Function
'----------------------------- end-script -----------------------------
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HTH
Bob Phillips
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"Together " wrote in message
...
Thank you for your nice help, Bob.
I am a new user for VBA in Excel. In fact, I could not understand your
code fully. Could you review it for me again. I can not run the code.
My sitation is that there are several tpyes file in one folder, such as
***.out, ***.fre, ***.trf. All the types can be opened by textscript.
Now I just use excel to open all the files, ***.out.
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