Read full text file vba

Learn more here. Below a simple example of reading a file to which a Type data type was saved to, including an Integer and String. You can try to read and process XML files similarly as text files shown above.

However, given you will probably want to extract specific XML tag or attribute information I suggest reading my dedicated article below. Above functions allow native upload of file data. However for more complicated scenario you will probably go for the FileSystemObject.

Reading files in VBA is not hard and requires just a few lines of code usually. It is, however, important to use the appropriate approach to read a file in VBA. Not all files need to be read line-by-line which is usually inefficient.

See also Proper VBA error handling. Read, Write, or Read Write Lock — optional. Closes the file using the file number. More info here. Using this function is important especially when operating on multiple files simultaneously. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 8 years, 1 month ago. Active 2 years, 1 month ago.

Viewed 58k times. I'm trying to read a text file using vba. Range "H12". Run-time error '62'. Input past end of file. The content of text file is: Unable to open COM Make sure it is connected Plus other stuff And more stuff way more stuff Thanks in advance for help.

Improve this question. Sanket Sanket 3 3 gold badges 12 12 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. This previous answer on the same subject might be helpful: stackoverflow. Thanks Hansen.

But my text file may have multiple lines. In the post link given by you I can only read one line. But I want to read the entire text file. My text file can have multiple lines. See the array method mentioned in the above link — Siddharth Rout.

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Any suggestion on how to format it? Can you make your test file available? A similar approach faster than fso is mentioned in the two links below op's question Netloh Netloh 4, 4 4 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. Hey Thanks again. Your code works!!.. Make sure it is connected. I tried using the trim fucntion and worksheets. I used this Worksheets "UI". Value, Len Worksheets "UI".

Value - 2 Thanks for all your help..