Not sure why you assemble the data into one line and break it out again.
Also a "code" we guess is "1", or "2" which forms one of the "19 items".

We would tackle the problem as is thus:
split the line;
go through the resulting array from first element up till isnumeric;
get the next 18 elements;
do the rest.

Cheers


"Bruce" <oleexpres.at.johnsonclan.net wrote in message
...
I am not sure which way would be best for this... worksheet functions of
VBA


Here is the situation, I have a large text file that I need to break info
out of.. This is not comma, or easyily delimited files, so I need to
figure
out how to do this (I have kludged something, but it takes so long and I
get
error messages due to memory. I KNOW there has to be a cleaner way to
handle
this.

The data comes from a combination of 2 or 3 rows, has a varible length
name
at the beginning, a "code", then the next 19 items are varible length and
seperated by spaces (these are the only spaces in this portion of the
data,
so space could be used to delimit in this section), then the rest of the
string is again varible length, open text). I have a routine that
assembles
the data into one line. (I am not sure if it is best to extract the data,
and then rejoin them in to one row, or to join the 2-3 rows of raw data
and
then parse. joining the lines seems to make the most sense...

Here are a few samples of the data:
BALL JESSE 1 00 62 14.69 77.97 64.41 10.00 8.71 19.80 15.00 210.58 2 31
2260.00 .00 .00 .00 0000000000000000000000 0122002440220380000000 LOT 10
BLK
27 BHAM REALTY COS ADD N O 4

BENSON ANNE L ROBINSON 1 00 108 26.13 138.68 114.57 10.00 14.90 26.10
15.00
345.38 2 35 4020.00 .00 .00 .00 0000000000000000000000
0122002030300030000000 S 50 FT OF LOTS 1 & 2 & 3 BLK 7 MAR

CHARLES REBECCA & SUTCLIF 2 05 79 5.46 42.00 5.88 36.44 10.91 87.55 163.31
351.55 2 14 840.00 .00 .00 .00 0000000000000000000000
0229113600041940000000
S 90 FT LOT 17 BLK 7 OLLINGER & STE

Would it be best to use a function or use programing?
I am thinking it would be best to seperate the name from the rest - (I
have
a routine that seems to do this ok, it is based on he fact of the number
right after the name, and a corralating code that I manually paste in to a
seperate column (this code is based on what file the records come from)



Any ideas?

Thanks!
Bruce