Need help in searching last occurrence of string in text file

[sam2211]

Hi ,

I am not good in file handling in excel macro..i need some help from
u.
I have one huge text file and i want to search last occurrence of
string in that file and then cut the data after that searched line
till end of file and paste it into a new text file.

Any help appreciated. thanks in advance.

[Oorang]

You have actually asked for a couple of tasks, I broke them down in the example. Post back if you have questions:

Option Explicit

Public Sub Example()
Dim strFileText As String
Dim strFinalValue As String
strFileText = GetFileText("C:\Test\MyTextFile.txt")
strFinalValue = ExtractTextAfter(strFileText, "bar", vbTextCompare)
MsgBox strFinalValue
End Sub

Private Function GetFileText(ByVal filePath As String) As String
Dim lngFileNum As Long
Dim lngFileLen As Long
Dim strFileText As String
lngFileNum = FreeFile
Open filePath For Binary Access Read Shared As #lngFileNum
lngFileLen = FileLen(filePath)
strFileText = String$(lngFileLen, vbNullChar)
Get #lngFileNum, , strFileText
Close #lngFileNum
GetFileText = strFileText
End Function

Private Function ExtractTextAfter(ByVal stringValue As String, ByVal subStringValue As String, _
Optional ByVal compare As VbCompareMethod = VbCompareMethod.vbBinaryCompare) As String
Dim lngDPos As Long
Dim strRtnVal As String
lngDPos = InStrRev(stringValue, subStringValue, -1, compare)
If lngDPos Then
strRtnVal = Mid$(stringValue, lngDPos + Len(subStringValue))
End If
ExtractTextAfter = strRtnVal
End Function

[sam2211]

:bow: Its Great Oorang, thanks for ur time...
It is working 99% fine...
can we delete the data that is coming in message box from original file and create a new text file and paste there.....:thumb

:beerchug: Thanks again......