I am trying to get the next line of data tag file, however because there are multiple lines with the same tag it is going through and taking the last one but I need the first one. Example tag file below.
Summary SA2100|7775555
Summary SUM100|9674555
Summary SUM100|8544555
Summary SUM100|8555554
From this it is taking 8555554 and not 7775555.
I was trying to put the first line in the if condition and set the string to be the next line is this possible ?
if Left(strLine, 14) = "Summary SA2100" Then
strSummary = mid(strNextLine, 16, 7)
End If
Is there a way to use StrNextLine or something similar ?
Thanks
Maybe you are referring to something like this:
Const ForReading = 1
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("c:\scripts\servers.txt", ForReading)
Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
strNextLine = objTextFile.Readline
MsgBox strNextLine
Loop
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. You get this dialog:
UPDATE:
Change the path to your data file - obviously. In the OpenTextFile
method.
Const ForReading = 1
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\test.txt", ForReading)
Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
strNextLine = objTextFile.ReadLine
If Left(strNextLine, 14) = "Summary SA2100" Then
strSummary = mid(strNextLine, 16, 7)
MsgBox strSummary
Exit Do
End If
'MsgBox strNextLine
Loop
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 'create object to open file
Set txtFile = FSO.OpenTextFile("C:\test.txt") 'full path for your file
Do while Not txtFile.AtEndOfStream
strLine = txtFile.ReadLine
If InStr(1,strLine,"Summary SA2100",1) > 0 Then
strNextLine=txtFile.ReadLine
nxtLine= mid(strNextLine, 16, 7)
Exit Do
End If
loop
MsgBox "The First Line : "& mid(strLine,16,7) & vbcrlf & "The Next Line : " & nxtLine