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JacobY

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Jul 27, 2002
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US
I am trying to gather the line after a certain value in a text file.... Any help would be appreciated.

Sub GetLayerNames()
Dim DPFLine As Variant
Dim I As Integer
Open "C:\Documents and Settings\JEY\Desktop\DEMO.las" For Input As #1
While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, DPFLine
If DPFLine = " 8" Then
'Here is where I want the line after

End If
Wend
Close #1
 
If you want the next line do something like this:

Sub GetLayerNames()
Dim DPFLine As Variant
Dim I As Integer
Dim varLine As Variant '<== New
Dim blnFound As Boolean '<== New
Open &quot;C:\Documents and Settings\JEY\Desktop\DEMO.las&quot; For Input As #1
While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, DPFLine
If DPFLine = &quot; 8&quot; Then
blnFound = True
ElseIf blnFound Then
varLine = DPFLine
blnFound = False
Else
'Maybe other processing
End If
Wend
Close #1

Good Luck!
 
Thanks for the help! (but)

Problem is that I have volumes of different information within the text file and I specifically need the line after.

Here is an example of the text file...

0
LAYERSTATEDICTIONARY
0
LAYERSTATE
1
DEMO
91
-1
8
EP-STMSYM
90
8
62
4
370
-3
6
CONTINUOUS
2
Color_4
8
up-stmout
90
8
62
51
370
-3
6
CONTINUOUS
2
Color_51
8
EP-SWLSYM
90
8
62
11
370
-3
6
CONTINUOUS
2
Color_11
8
_KTI_CONTROL
90
11
62
7
370
-3
6
CONTINUOUS
2
Color_7
8
fp-carsym
90
 
To further clarify my direction...
I have been thinking along these lines...
But it just isn't clicking...

While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, DPFLine
If DPFLine = &quot; 8&quot; Then
Line Input #1, DPFLine(I + 1)
 
My regrets,

I was too hasty to reply and didn't read all of the code (or even try it out!). SBendBuckeye was correct.

Regards to you. Jacob
 
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