To all,


I have a series of comma seperated text files. One for each day of the
year. They are identified by the title RD071107, RD071108 etc. - This
denotes the date that the data was collected (yy/mm/dd). In each text
file there is comma serpated data in the format shown below:

Date,Time,Pierce_Position,Pierce_Pressure,Clamp_Po sition,Clamp_Pressure,Current_Job,Toolslide_Positi on,Press
Mode,Rotary 1 Furnace Temperature,Rotary 2 Furnace Temperature
2007/13/11,01:02:41,1506.,32.,-2,4102.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:41,1506.,31.,-2,4379.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:42,1506.,32.,-2,4378.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:42,1506.,31.,-2,4363.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:43,1506.,31.,-2,4345.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:43,1506.,31.,-2,4328.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:12,541.,92.,2,472.,35602,4,Auto,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:13,697.,93.,2,468.,35602,4,Auto,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:13,877.,94.,1,465.,35602,4,Auto,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:14,1012.,94.,1,462.,35602,4,Auto,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:14,1012.,84.,1,459.,35602,4,Auto,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:15,1206.,74.,1,456.,35602,4,Auto,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:15,1259.,69.,1,454.,35602,4,Auto,0,0
2007/13/11,08:44:16,1290.,72.,1,452.,35602,4,Manual,0,0


The important data for me is the current_job number which is a 5 digit
numeric number - in the example above it is 35900. Each text file
contains multiple job numbers.

What I want to be able to do is search through each text file (one per
day in a master folder) and extract all the data for a particular job.
So for the job number 35900 it would extract the following from the
text file. It would repeat this for each day.

2007/13/11,01:02:41,1506.,32.,-2,4102.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:41,1506.,31.,-2,4379.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:42,1506.,32.,-2,4378.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:42,1506.,31.,-2,4363.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:43,1506.,31.,-2,4345.,35900,2,Manual,0,0
2007/13/11,01:02:43,1506.,31.,-2,4328.,35900,2,Manual,0,0

I then want to be able to import the data found into an excel workbook
titled with the job number 35900, with a seperate worksheet for each
day of data extracted.

Is there a quick way to do this, if so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regard

Joseph Crabtree