VBA Delete Text Files
VBA Delete Text Files using Kill statement or DeleteFile method of file system object(FSO). In the following tutorial let us learn how to delete text file in two different methods.
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DeleteFile Method to Delete Text File in Excel VBA
Delete file using DeleteFile Method of file system object. The following macro deletes the specified text file.
'VBA DeleteFile using FSO Delete file method Sub VBAF1_To_Delete_TextFile_Using_FSO_DeleteFile_Method() 'Variabledeclaration Dim oFSO As New FileSystemObject Dim sFile As String Dim myTextStream As TextStream 'Specify text file path to open sFile = "C:\VBAF1\CreateTextFile.txt" 'Text file to delete oFSO.DeleteFile sFile, False End Sub
Kill Statement to Delete Text File in Excel VBA
Delete a file using kill statement.
'VBA Delete File using Kill Statement Sub VBAF1_To_Delete_TextFile_Using_Kill_Statement() 'Variable declaration Dim FileNum As Integer Dim sFile As String 'Specify text file path to delete sFile = "C:\VBAF1\sample.txt" 'Check Text file is available or not If Len(Dir(sFile)) > 0 Then 'Delete specified text file MsgBox "File found and deleted.", vbInformation, "VBAF1" Kill sFile Else 'Display message if file is not available MsgBox "File not found.", vbInformation, "VBAF1" End If End Sub
Explanation:If specified file is available it deletes. Otherwise it display message on the screen. Here is a screen shot for your reference.
Instructions to use Macro
Here are the instructions to use above macro in Visual basic editor.
- Open Visual Basic Editor(VBE) by clicking Alt +F11
- Go to code window by clicking F7
- Copy above specified macro or procedure
- Paste above copied code in code window
- Run macro by clicking F5 or Run command
- You can see output in the immediate window
- you can find above specified input and output screenshot for your reference and better understand.
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