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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. |
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Loop through all files on a floppy drive
Please see response to previous post.
-- Regards, Jake Marx MS MVP - Excel www.longhead.com [please keep replies in the newsgroup - email address unmonitored] 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. |
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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 -- 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. |
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