I need to create a text string from a variable length file name by removing
the .xls from the end of the file name. It would be easy if the file names
were a fixed length, but they are not. Is there another easy way?

"Mitch" wrote in message
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I need to create a text string from a variable length file name by removing
the .xls from the end of the file name. It would be easy if the file
names
were a fixed length, but they are not. Is there another easy way?

Hi Mitch,

Here's one way to do it:

Dim szFilename As String
Dim szNameOnly As String
szFilename = "My File Name.xls"
szNameOnly = Left$(szFilename, Len(szFilename) - 4)

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One way:

sFileName = Left(sFileName, Len(sFileName) - 4)

or, if you weren't sure whether the extension was there or not:

sFileName = Replace(sFileName, ".xls", "")

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"Mitch" wrote:

I need to create a text string from a variable length file name by removing
the .xls from the end of the file name. It would be easy if the file names
were a fixed length, but they are not. Is there another easy way?