Comments on: VBA: Find Text in a String (instr)

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:02:06 +0000

Hi Iam look for an solution:

I’ve got a string value like this one:

strExample = abc-cde-12

I want to extract the last number, just if there are two of the “-” in the string.
I dont know how to handle that with “InStr”.

Maybe some has a hint for me?

By: Anton

Anton — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:37:32 +0000

Also works for me:

numOfMatches = (Len(UCase(TempString)) – Len(Replace(UCase(TempString), UCase(findText), “”))) / Len(UCase(findText))

By: jwk

jwk — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:06:46 +0000

I am betting that reading the range into a variant array and using the instr() on the elements would happen pretty quickly.

By: Walter Rauschenberger

Walter Rauschenberger — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:47:22 +0000

Instr returns the position at which the search string occours – not the number of times it is contained!

By: Sherry

Sherry — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:03:27 +0000

So this might not be the right place to publish this, but I’ve never posted on a forum before, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

I’m currently interning with a company who has hired me to help automate office processes centered around databases. So far, I’ve done things with access, excel, and VBA that I didn’t even think was possible, but for some reason, I’ve now hit a brick wall.

The task seems deceptively simple: We are importing fields from a project management database into access. Sometimes, fields such as project description or project title will have records that come in with spelling errors. Instead of meticulously reading these, or copying and pasting them into microsoft word one record at a time, what we would like to do is be able to cycle through the records belonging to a particular field and spellcheck them while they’re in the table and then highlight the misspelled word in some way.

Right now, I have a solution that will only check one word in the field, which is not sufficient. Any advice whatsoever would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

By: Jerimiah

Jerimiah — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:25:00 +0000

Of course this is an Access solution. There is no faster option is Excel then looping one line at a time.

By: Jerimiah

Jerimiah — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:23:18 +0000

Omar,

Are you using a recordset object or a query? A recordset object has to go one line at a time and could take some time however if you create a query with an equation field Expr1: Instr(1, [FieldName], [String]) then set criteria > 0 this query would only return records where the String is found. Should be much faster than the recordset object. If it is still slow try indexing the field you are doing the search on. It will increase the size of your database but is worth the saved time.

By: Omar

Omar — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:28:52 +0000

Hi, thanks for all your posts. I am using INSTR() and it works fine, but for 50k rows, takes too much time. Can you recommend me any other function that can do the same but faster?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Omar.

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:40:38 +0000

Hi,

I want to search text which has variable length:
Ex: SR or S/R or S?R
Is there any thing like wildcard which we can use with Instr function?

Please advice

By: Asher Mehboob

Asher Mehboob — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:15:02 +0000

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