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  1. Doogster

    Reposted - How to extract specific text from BLOB file

    Hi CMP Thanks for that suggestion. Each BLOB file is around 20,000 characters, so a string is not appropriate. Cheers. Doogster
  2. Doogster

    How to define Field object for GetChunk method

    Hi folks I'm attempting to extract some text from a BLOB file in Excel using VBA using the GetChunk method. According to the Microsoft help file, GetChunk is used as follows: Set variable = recordset ! field.GetChunk (offset, numbytes) I understand all of this except for the "recordset ...
  3. Doogster

    Reposted - How to extract specific text from BLOB file

    Thanks Bob No, there will not always be the same number of chars after the =, which is what makes this so frustrating. The N026.... does span lines. I was thinking of using the GetChunk method, while using InStr to locate each instance of the data I want to extract. Hopefully I can then copy...
  4. Doogster

    Reposted - How to extract specific text from BLOB file

    Hi folks I posted this yesterday in the VBA Forum, but overnight it vanished. I got a notification that MiggyD had responded to it, but as the thread was deleted, I couldn't see the response..... Anyway, here's the original thread (let's hope it too doesn't vanish): I have several large BLOB...
  5. Doogster

    How to extract specific text from a BLOB file

    Hi folks I have several large BLOB files from a Uniface application which contain text and junk characters. I need to extract certain pieces of text from the BLOB file. Is this possible using VBA using either Excel or Access (versions 2003)? Here is a small portion of one BLOB file...

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