Best way to import fixed-width delimited text files into an array?

Should I use the Workbooks.OpenText Filename, or is there a faster way to
bring in the file?

Actually, I may not even need the file in a worksheet, I just need the data
in an array so I can use it to manipulate an existing excel file...so would
it be faster to do some alternate type of file read directly into a
2-dimensional array?

Thanks for any advise,
Keith

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thoughts, views, or policy of my employer. Any errors or omissions are my
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You can use low level fileio:

http://www.applecore99.com/gen/gen029.asp


http://support.microsoft.com/support...eio/fileio.asp
File Access with Visual Basic® for Applications


Sub ReadStraightTextFile()
Dim LineofText As String
Dim rw as Long
rw = 0
Open "C:\FILEIO\TEXTFILE.TXT" For Input As #1
Do While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, LineofText
rw = rw + 1
' now parse LineofText according to the column widths and
' put the values in an array.
Loop
'Close the file
Close #1
End Sub

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"KR" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Should I use the Workbooks.OpenText Filename, or is there a faster way to
> bring in the file?
>
> Actually, I may not even need the file in a worksheet, I just need the
data
> in an array so I can use it to manipulate an existing excel file...so
would
> it be faster to do some alternate type of file read directly into a
> 2-dimensional array?
>
> Thanks for any advise,
> Keith
>
> --
> The enclosed questions or comments are entirely mine and don't represent
the
> thoughts, views, or policy of my employer. Any errors or omissions are my
> own.
>
>