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POVBA to parse multiple text files?
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    copied!<p>I'm trying to do some crude parsing of a bunch of text files. Basically, I'm looking to remove characters like <code>(){}[]"'</code>, then replace colons with semicolons then replace strings with better looking strings.</p> <p>The kicker is that I have about 1,500 files that need to have this done to them. If I merge all the files, first, then try to do the parsing, the app stops responding.<br> I have been using windows macros to do this, and it works on each of the files individually, but I don't know how to have it do it to all the files in that directory.</p> <p>Example of the code I'm using:</p> <pre><code>Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "[" .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "]" .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "," .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = """" .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With </code></pre>
 

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