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MS Office Forum / Excel / Programming / May 2008I am not sure
Hello; I am trying to help someone, for which I am not sure there exists a solution. He has a .csv file that he is opening in Excel. The values, somehow, import into the correct conglomeration of data. More in a minute. Column A is a number formatted as text. Column B is a series of numbers, some formatted as text. Those that are not formatted as text, are separated by commas (Huh!!) and hyphens. The object is to concatenate the two values together. Example: A | B | C | | 1 | 357 |Argentina | | 345 |32,34,39 |Paraguay | 40-45 | | | 33945 |27-30,41, | USA |43, 45 | The data should finally look like this for USA (etc.) A | B 3394527 |USA 3394528 |USA 3394529 |USA 3394530 |USA 3394541 |USA 3394543 |USA 3394545 |USA Which column the new values end up in does not matter. I know how to do this fairly rapidly with formula's and a big enough worksheet. Then copy and paste the values to where I want them. I am wondering if this is even possible. I am not a big VB fan. I like to avoid them if I can, but I wonder if this can even be handeled by VB. Column B on one of the cells looks like this as an example. 264235, 264469, 264476, 264497, 264536-264539, 264543, 264581-264584, 264724, 264729, 264772-264773 There is no regularity to the number of digits. There is no regularity to the hyphenation location. There is no regularity to the format of the numbers (which I guess all could be changed to numbers and back to text for concantenation) and there is no regularity to the quantity of values in the cell. Is there any hope for this? Any help would be appreciated. Thank You Frank Pytel PS. I see a lot of posts here that look really nice. I am on the Office Online site. I know these posts can be viewed and edited at other sites. Can I set this up in Outlook so that I can Post and search. Kind of like Outlook Express? Thanks It absolutely can be done in VB; in fact I would say, theoretically, that any full programming language can do it, even if some can do it more easily than others. This one would be easier to do in other languages, but it wouldn't be really easy in any language - possibly excepting REXX, and maybe LISP if I knew LISP - and if Excel is where the data is stored then it's probably the right place to process it. Let's see, now. There may be a more elegant way to do it, but I think each string in column B can be parsed as follows: 1) Change every string of consecutive <space>s to a single <space>. 2) Next change every occurrence of <space><hyphen> and <hyphen><space> to a single <hyphen>. 3) Next change every occurrence of <comma>, <space><comma> and <comma><space> to a single <space>. Now you have a string consisting simply of "<i> <j>-<k> <l>" etc. You can take each space-delimited group in turn. Each one that has a hyphen in it can be divided and then turned into a list of numbers <j> through <k>, and each group without a hyphen is number by itself. Each number thus generated must be concatenated to the value in column A and written to a new cell in your resulting list. As I said, this isn't exactly elegant, but it's more easily described than some of the solutions that would run faster. How much detail do you want to get into? > I am trying to help someone, for which I am not sure there exists a solution. He > has a .csv file that he is opening in Excel. The values, somehow, import into the [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > I set this up in Outlook so that I can Post and search. Kind of like Outlook > Express? Thanks Bob; Sounds easy enough. I would certainly like to see code to this affect. The VB that I know is limited, but it sounds intriguing. I am not sure at all that I see this working. Can you point me to some of the code for the hyphen portion and for deleting commas. Thanks Bob. Have a Great Day. Frank Pytel > It absolutely can be done in VB; in fact I would say, theoretically, that any > full programming language can do it, even if some can do it more easily than [quoted text clipped - 77 lines] > > I set this up in Outlook so that I can Post and search. Kind of like Outlook > > Express? Thanks The VB I know is not all that limited at all. Just out of curiosity, which version of VBA are you using? Rick > Bob; > [quoted text clipped - 118 lines] >> > Outlook >> > Express? Thanks Hey Rick; I am not sure. I don't do much. It says 6.5.1024 is the retail version. It is called Mircorsoft Visual Basic 6.5. God Bless Frank Pytel > The VB I know is not all that limited at all. Just out of curiosity, which > version of VBA are you using? [quoted text clipped - 123 lines] > >> > Outlook > >> > Express? Thanks Hey Rick; My VBA is limited, not the programs I am sure. Frank Pytel > The VB I know is not all that limited at all. Just out of curiosity, which > version of VBA are you using? [quoted text clipped - 123 lines] > >> > Outlook > >> > Express? Thanks > PS. I see a lot of posts here that look really nice. I am on the Office > Online site. I know these posts can be viewed and edited at other sites. > Can > I set this up in Outlook so that I can Post and search. Kind of like > Outlook > Express? Thanks Outlook Express is where you want to be. It's a newsreader, and this is a newsgroup, NOT a Web site, even though you may be reading it through a Web application which makes it APPEAR to be a Web site/forum. Anyways, in OE, set up a News account and point it to msnews.microsoft.com, then subscribe to microsoft.public.excel.programming. Of course, there are other newsreaders out there, some even free, but OE is basically guaranteed to already be on the (Windows) machine you're using. Thanks Jeff; Frank Pytel > > PS. I see a lot of posts here that look really nice. I am on the Office > > Online site. I know these posts can be viewed and edited at other sites. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Of course, there are other newsreaders out there, some even free, but OE is > basically guaranteed to already be on the (Windows) machine you're using.
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