I have a long text field (called "reporttext") that someone is importing a bunch of text that needs to be separated and appended into another table. For each case, there's a "[]" character that is supposed to separate each case. I want my code to look for the first [] and second [], append the text to another table and then loop. So the next case would be the text between the second [] and third [].
Here's my string
Reporttext: [] ksfjjls [] 42244 [] @@@@
I would want this to append to a new table called "notes" where it would be like this:
Reporttext
ksfjjls
42244
@@@@
I used a macro to count the number of [] in the text file to know how many times to run the loop, but this, along with the rest of my code just isn't happening. I know my code is wrong, but I know with a few tweaks it'll get there. Any help is appreciated.
lengthofnote = Len([reporttext])
start = InStr([reporttext], "[]")
startplus3 = [start] + 3
'find number of cases
firstcase = 1
numcases = StringCountOccurrences([reporttext], "[]")
Dim LCounter As Integer
For LCounter = [firstcase] To [numcases]
revisedreporttext = Mid([reporttext], [startplus3], [lengthofnote])
secondposition = InStr([revisedreporttext], "[]")
nextreporttext = Mid([reporttext], [startplus3], [secondposition])
Add_reporttext = "INSERT INTO notes(reporttext) values ('" & nextreporttext & "');"
DoCmd.RunSQL Add_reporttext
firstcase = firstcase + 1
startplus3 = secondposition
secondposition = secondposition + 4
Next LCounter
@Zev Spitz is correct in that you could use Split()
to accomplish this. You could use something like this
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Sub SplitLongTextField()
Dim rs As Recordset
Dim reportTextArr
Dim qString As String
Dim i As Long
qString = "SELECT [reporttext] FROM [Table1]" '<- replace [Table1] with the name of your table with the Long Text field
Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(qString)
If Not rs.EOF Then
reportTextArr = Split(rs.Fields("reporttext"), "[]")
End If
For i = LBound(reportTextArr) To UBound(reportTextArr)
If Not reportTextArr(i) = "" Then
DoCmd.RunSQL "INSERT INTO notes(reporttext) VALUES('" & reportTextArr(i) & "');"
End If
Next i
rs.Close
End Sub
If you needed to do this for multiple records from your initial table then you could loop through the entire table and loop the operation like
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Sub SplitLongTextField()
Dim rs As Recordset
Dim reportTextArr
Dim qString As String
Dim i As Long
qString = "SELECT [reporttext] FROM [Table1]" '<- replace [Table1] with the name of your table with the Long Text field
Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(qString)
Do Until rs.EOF
reportTextArr = Split(rs.Fields("reporttext"), "[]")
For i = LBound(reportTextArr) To UBound(reportTextArr)
If Not reportTextArr(i) = "" Then
DoCmd.RunSQL "INSERT INTO notes(reporttext) VALUES('" & reportTextArr(i) & "');"
End If
Next i
rs.MoveNext
Loop
rs.Close
End Sub