[AccessD] Edit Large text file via VBA

Drew,

Thanks for the code...I'm getting an error on the OPEN line when I 
execute...error="Bad file name or number"

I even shortened the name to less than 8 characters...no spaces, just 
letters.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark A. Matte


>From: DWUTKA at marlow.com
>Reply-To: Access Developers discussion and problem 
>solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Edit Large text file via VBA
>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:10:33 -0500
>
>Dim f as long
>Dim strTemp as string
>F=freefile
>Open "C:\PathToFile\FileName.txt" for binary access read as f
>Strtemp=space(lof(f))
>Get f,,strtemp
>Close f
>Strtemp=replace(strtemp,"WhateverCharactersYouWantToReplace","")
>F=freefile
>Open "C:\NewFile.txt" for binary access write as f
>Put f,,strtemp
>Close f
>
>
>If you just want to replace the original file, I recommend using the kill
>statement to delete the old file, then change the path of the last 'open'
>statement to rewrite it.  If you 'write' a file that is smaller then the 
>one
>you are writing over, you'll get the remainder at the end.
>
>Drew
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark A Matte [mailto:markamatte at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 1:02 PM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [AccessD] Edit Large text file via VBA
>
>Hello All,
>
>I know someone helped me do this a couple of years ago...but I can't find 
>it
>
>in my stuff or the archives.
>
>I need to search a large pipe delimited text file and remove a string of
>characters.  I'm sure I opened it in vba and did this 'search/edit'
>thing...but not sure where to start.
>
>Also...importing it is not an option due to the one of ther characters I
>need to delete.
>
>any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark A. Matte
>
>
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