Want VBA in excel to read very large CSV and create output file of a small subset of the CSV

Question

I have a csv file of 1.2 million records of text. The alphanumeric fields are wrapped in quotation marks, the date/time or numeric fields are not.

For example \"Fre

Answer 1

Anything you can do a-row-at-a-time with vba in excel, you can do in access with vba; plus a lot more because it's a database rather than a spreadsheet. Is access unavailable to you?

It's a lot easier to deal with logical tables, records, and fields than logical worksheets, rows, and columns.

For input, why does the "/Data/Import External Data/Text/csv" not work? Is the input not truly portable csv?