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I would very much appreciate some help in extracting a value from a text
file. If the text file was imported to XL and parsed it should cover 5
columns. The data is in blocks determined by a row descriptor at the bottom
of each block. I need a value in that row that could be in any of the other
four columns, it is governed by a column heading at the top of that block
however these headings vary per block so they are not consistent. I can do
all this in XL but it is very messy using a series of loops etc.

As i have to repeat this exercise several times it struck me that it might
be less prone to error and maybe more efficient to extract this value
straight from the unparsed text file. If so i will be very grateful for some
code to do this or to be pointed in the right direction.
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with kind regards

Spike
 
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