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Using partial file names in an excel table to match and copy files to a subfolder
I'm trying to match using partial file names, then copy all matching files to a subfolder within the source folder.
This is another users pic, but I'm trying to use "TPS" from column D to copy the "TPS report" file into a new folder called "found files" located inside the "document folder" source folder.
Basically, I've got a list of PO#s and a folder with all those POs saved in it, but the full file names have a bunch of extraneous data after the PO# so I'd like to just use those to match them. I found some code from another user (@Subodh_Tiwari_sktneer), but I'm hoping someone can help me tweak it a bit, as I can't seem to get the code to work...
I've gotten it to create the subfolder in the source folder, but I would like to have the program search for partial file names instead of whole names (ex: search for 20448 results in the file labeled: 20448 xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx, xxx-xxx, xxxxx-xx)
CODE:
Sub SearchFiles() Dim ws As Worksheet Dim tbl As ListObject Dim cel As Range Dim rootFolder As String Dim strNameNewSubFolder As String Dim fso As FileSystemObject Dim newFolder As Folder Dim fil As File Dim strFilepath As String Dim newFilePath As String Set fso = New FileSystemObject Set ws = Worksheets("B") Set tbl = ws.ListObjects(1) 'Path of the Source folder with files rootFolder = "C:\Users\sktneer\Documents" If Not fso.FolderExists(rootFolder) Then MsgBox rootFolder & " doesn't exist.", vbExclamation, "Source Folder Not Found!" Exit Sub End If 'files that are found in the Source Folder would be copied to this New Sub-Folder 'Change the name of the Sub-Folder as per your requirement strNameNewSubFolder = "Found Files" If Right(rootFolder, 1) <> "/" Then rootFolder = rootFolder & "/" If Not fso.FolderExists(rootFolder & strNameNewSubFolder) Then fso.CreateFolder rootFolder & strNameNewSubFolder End If Set newFolder = fso.GetFolder(rootFolder & strNameNewSubFolder) tbl.DataBodyRange.Columns(4).Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone For Each cel In tbl.DataBodyRange.Columns(4).Cells strFilepath = rootFolder & cel.Value newFilePath = newFolder.Path & "/" & cel.Value If fso.FileExists(strFilepath) Then cel.Interior.Color = vbYellow Set fil = fso.GetFile(strFilepath) 'The following line will copy the file found to the newly created Sub-Folder fil.Copy newFilePath End If Next cel Set fso = Nothing End Sub
I'm wondering what I would need to add to this code to have it return the correct files using partial file names. Any and all help is massively appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
6 Replies
- peiyezhuBronze Contributor
- AnthonyDavisSFCopper ContributorSorry but I'm pretty new to all this and watching the video you posted unfortunately didn't make sense to me. I'm sure the code works fine, I just can't understand it yet as a newbie haha. Thank you though! I'll do some searching and see if I can't figure out how to follow along with what you're doing in the video.
- peiyezhuBronze ContributorAfter you download and unzip the rgReanme.zip,you will find an exe file rgRename.exe.
This is an executive file for command line.
It will iterate all files in same path of the rgRename.exe when run once.
e.g.
if you have created a sub folder subA,you want move 20448 xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx.xlsx to subA/20448 xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx.xlsx
rgRename.exe 20448 subA/20448
then for batch actions
use bat.
e.g.
a.bat
rgRename.exe 20448 subA/20448
rgRename.exe 20449 subA/20449