Loop through all files on a floppy drive
 

I posted the question below in the general threads but thought it might be
better placed here.

I have some equipment that periodicaly records some data to disk.
Unfortunatly each time it records the data it creates a new file and records
a great deal of extranious data. I use sneaker net to transfer the files to
my PC. I can open each file (theyare text), and have written a macro to
extract the data needed and place it in an excel sheet in order. However, I
must open each file change its name to the name used in the macro and run the
macro. This is almost as big a pain as printing each file and copying the
data by hand.

I see that there is a For Each ... Next structure in visual basic, but the
only example of how to use this with files is a bit confusing to me. I
learned to program 15 years ago and never learned visual anything.

In any case can someone show me how to write a loop that performs a task on
every file on a floppy drive? All files would be in the root directory if
that helps.

Thanks for any help.

Loop through all files on a floppy drive
 

Please see response to previous post.

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Regards,

Jake Marx
MS MVP - Excel
www.longhead.com

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ED007 wrote:
I posted the question below in the general threads but thought it
might be better placed here.

I have some equipment that periodicaly records some data to disk.
Unfortunatly each time it records the data it creates a new file and
records a great deal of extranious data. I use sneaker net to
transfer the files to my PC. I can open each file (theyare text),
and have written a macro to extract the data needed and place it in
an excel sheet in order. However, I must open each file change its
name to the name used in the macro and run the macro. This is
almost as big a pain as printing each file and copying the data by
hand.

I see that there is a For Each ... Next structure in visual basic,
but the only example of how to use this with files is a bit
confusing to me. I learned to program 15 years ago and never
learned visual anything.

In any case can someone show me how to write a loop that performs a
task on every file on a floppy drive? All files would be in the
root directory if that helps.

Thanks for any help.

Loop through all files on a floppy drive
 

Can you try

use getopenfilename (...(*.txt), *.txt) to display all files available
rewrite your macro to take filename so selected
loop next file
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Regards
PY & Associates

"ED007" wrote in message
...
I posted the question below in the general threads but thought it might be
better placed here.

I have some equipment that periodicaly records some data to disk.
Unfortunatly each time it records the data it creates a new file and
records
a great deal of extranious data. I use sneaker net to transfer the
files to
my PC. I can open each file (theyare text), and have written a macro to
extract the data needed and place it in an excel sheet in order.
However, I
must open each file change its name to the name used in the macro and
run the
macro. This is almost as big a pain as printing each file and copying
the
data by hand.

I see that there is a For Each ... Next structure in visual basic, but
the
only example of how to use this with files is a bit confusing to me. I
learned to program 15 years ago and never learned visual anything.

In any case can someone show me how to write a loop that performs a task
on
every file on a floppy drive? All files would be in the root directory
if
that helps.

Thanks for any help.