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Default Extract Data from Text Files

I’m looking for a excel macro the will extract the first 8 characters
in the first line of a text file and put that value in cell A1.
Extract characters 9 thru 14 in the first line and put that value in
cell B1. Then go to the last line in the file and extract characters 9
thru 14 and put that value in cell C1. Last I would like to run this
formula in cell D1 =C1-B1+1.
Some times I could have as many as 150 different file in my directory
so I would like the macro to do this for every file in my directory.

Sample Data:


FLEX764D1000751
FLEX764D1000752
FLEX764D1000753
FLEX764D1000754
FLEX764D1000755
FLEX764D1000756
FLEX764D1000757
FLEX764D1000758

Extraction would reurn

A B C D
FLEX764D1 000751 000758 8


Thank for any help..