Parse CSV, ignoring commas inside string literals in VBA?

Question

I have a VBA application that runs every day. It checks a folder where CSVs are downloaded automatically, and adds their contents to a database. When parsing them, I reali

Answer 1

If you are working with MS Access tables, there are advantages in simply importing text from disk. For example:

''If you have a reference to the Windows Script Host Object Model
Dim fs As New FileSystemObject
Dim ts As TextStream

''For late binding
''Dim fs As Object
''Dim ts As Object
''Set fs=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set ts = fs.CreateTextFile("z:\docs\import.csv", True)

sData = "1,2,3,""This should,be one part"",5,6,7"

ts.Write sData
ts.Close

''Just for testing, your table will already exist
''sSQL = "Create table Imports (f1 int, f2 int, f3 int, f4 text, " _
''     & "f5 int, f6 int, f7 int)"
''CurrentDb.Execute sSQL

''The fields will be called F1,F2 ... Fn in the text file
sSQL = "INSERT INTO Imports SELECT * FROM " _
     & "[text;fmt=delimited;hdr=no;database=z:\docs\].[import.csv]"
CurrentDb.Execute sSQL