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The document summarizes how to parse and manipulate strings in VBA. It provides an example of splitting a string on spaces into an array of words. It then loops through each word to count the number of "t" characters and adds words with more than one "t" to a separate array. This demonstrates how to identify parts of a string through parsing and manipulation.

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VBA - String Parsing. String Parsing Involves Looking Through - by Breakcorporate - Medium

The document summarizes how to parse and manipulate strings in VBA. It provides an example of splitting a string on spaces into an array of words. It then loops through each word to count the number of "t" characters and adds words with more than one "t" to a separate array. This demonstrates how to identify parts of a string through parsing and manipulation.

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VBA — String Parsing


breakCorporate Jul 10, 2016 · 2 min read

String parsing involves looking through each character in a string. Typically


it is best to split the string on spaces or another indicator such as “.” or “/” so
only individual words are being observed. This process can used to
manipulate words in a string or identify parts of strings.

For Example:

Dim checkString as String


Dim stringArray() as String
Dim tCount as Integer
Dim tWordArray() as String

checkString = "Trying to identify words that have more than one t:


like matter or scatter"

stringArray = Split(checkString, " ")

For each word in checkString

tCount = 0

For i = 1 to len(word)

if mid(word, i, 1) = "t" Then tCount = tCount + 1

Next i

if tCount > 1 Then

if len(join(tWordArray)) = 0 Then

Redim preserve tWordArray(0)

else

Redim preserve tWordArray(Ubound(tWordArray) + 1)

End if

tWordArray(Ubound(tWordArray)) = word

End if

Next word

The code above splits the checkString on each space. The Split method will
automatically split the string on spaces if not speciBed. It can split on any
indicator whether is be commas, dashes, you get the point. The Split
method returns an array of strings.

We loop through the array of words. Then we loop through each character
in the word by using the mid method which takes the a segment of a string.
We specify that we want to take one character from the word string at
character i. Note that the mid method takes the character number and not
the index, therefore we run from 1 to the length of the word. If the
character at i is t we increment the tCount variable.

If the tCount is greater than 1 we add the word to the tWordArray. We Brst
check if there is anything in the array by checking the length of all items in
the array. If the length is 0 then we know there are no items. We then can
set the dimension to be 0. If the length is not 0 then there is already an item
in the array and we call the Ubound method to Bnd the number of indices
in the array.

We end with having an array of strings. The strings should be “matter” and
“scatter”. This example explores how to identify parts of a string. We can
also manipulate the string. For example we could have changed each t to an
a. There are many possibilities with string manipulation and this is a quick
example to show the power of strings.

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