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Read Data From Text File

This document provides code to read data from a text file containing geographical coordinates and import the latitude and longitude values into an Excel worksheet. The code declares variables to store the file path, text from the file, and positions of keywords in the text. It then opens the file, reads each line into a variable, closes the file, finds the positions of latitude and longitude, and extracts the coordinate values to write to cells A1 and A2.

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Read Data From Text File

This document provides code to read data from a text file containing geographical coordinates and import the latitude and longitude values into an Excel worksheet. The code declares variables to store the file path, text from the file, and positions of keywords in the text. It then opens the file, reads each line into a variable, closes the file, finds the positions of latitude and longitude, and extracts the coordinate values to write to cells A1 and A2.

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Read Data from Text File

 
Below we will look at a program in Excel VBA that reads data from a text file. This file contains
some geographical coordinates we want to import into Excel.
Situation:

1. First, download the text file and add it to "C:\test\"


Place a command button on your worksheet and add the following code lines:
2. We declare four variables. myFile of type String, text of type String, textline of type String,
posLat of type Integer, and posLong of type Integer.
Dim myFile As String, text As String, textline As String, posLat As Integer,
posLong As Integer

3. We need to initialize the variable myFile with the full path and the filename.
myFile = "C:\test\geographical-coordinates.txt"

or
use the GetOpenFilename method of the Application object to display the standard open Dialog
box and select the file (without actually opening the file).
myFile = Application.GetOpenFilename()

Note: the empty part between the brackets means we give Excel VBA nothing as input. Place
your cursor on GetOpenFilename in the Visual Basic Editor and click F1 for help on the
arguments.
4. Add the following code line:
Open myFile For Input As #1

Note: this statement allows the file to be read. We can refer to the file as #1 during the rest of our
code.
5. Add the following code lines:
Do Until EOF(1)
    Line Input #1, textline
    text = text & textline
Loop
Note: until the end of the file (EOF), Excel VBA reads a single line from the file and assigns it to
textline. We use the & operator to concatenate (join) all the single lines and store it in the
variable text.
6. Close the file.
Close #1

7. Next, we search for the position of the words latitude and longitude in the variable text. We
use the Instrfunction.
posLat = InStr(text, "latitude")
posLong = InStr(text, "longitude")

8. We use these positions and the Mid function to extract the coordinates from the variable text
and write the coordinates to cell A1 and cell A2.
Range("A1").Value = Mid(text, posLat + 10, 5)
Range("A2").Value = Mid(text, posLong + 11, 5)

9. Test the program.


Result:

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