excel VBA macro to parse multi-line tabbed textbox

Question

I'm fairly new making macros for excel and I think I'm being a bit too ambitious in my latest project. I basically want to parse the output of a piece of lab equipment to help me file cells in a file that I will use to process my experimental data.

I wanted to paste the raw output from the device in a text box, and then have a macro split the data across multiple cells. In the raw data, text is separated horizontally by tabs and vertically by line breaks.

Eg

data1 [tab] data2 [tab] data3 [Line break] data4 [tab] data5 [tab] data6 [LB]

and so on, which would then be parsed into 3 cells horizontally across 2 cells vertically.

Any ideas how to do this easily?

cheers Yossi.

Answer 1

You need to split the value of the textbox twice, first create rows, and then further split that into cells.

Dim rows As Variant
Dim columns As Variant
Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer

i = 1
rows = Split(TextBox1.Value, vbNewLine)

For Each r In rows

j = 1
columns = Split(r, vbTab)

For Each c In columns

Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, j).Value = c

j = j + 1

Next c
i = i + 1
Next r