You obviously have valid reason to combine names and codes together.
However, since you know names (could be company names) have numeric in them,
and you know they are names, you can exclude them in the first instance.
Alternatively, can we see more of your data please?

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"Bruce" <oleexpres.at.johnsonclan.net wrote in message
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"PY & Associates" wrote in message
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Not sure why you assemble the data into one line and break it out again.
I feel it would be easer to parse data from one element then 2 or 3) and
then break it out from that one
Also a "code" we guess is "1", or "2" which forms one of the "19 items".
The "code" could be between 1 and 65


We would tackle the problem as is thus:
split the line;
go through the resulting array from first element up till isnumeric;
I did not use isnumaric because sometimes names (could be company names)
have numeric in them)

get the next 18 elements;
What would be the best way to do this? I am thinking may be sumthing like
MID(A1, find(A1," ",column()),A1," ",column()+1) which is a LOT cleaner
than
what I already have
do the rest.

Cheers


"Bruce" <oleexpres.at.johnsonclan.net wrote in message
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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