I think I know how I'd approach it. I deal with something similar. I use an array to store the values. But by the time you add a couple thousand entries to the array, it becomes very time consuming FINDING the array element that has the correct entry to modify! so, I use a Dictionary Object to store the array index...
Can you give me a list of "features" you're reporting and what order you want them in? I think I can generate a list of random phone numbers to use in some sample data. Or, better yet.. can you send me a file in which you've replaced the phone numbers with some random numbers? I'd be glad to take a look and "play".. Paul On Oct 6, 9:11 pm, bruce <goo...@johnsonclan.net> wrote: > I am creating a program that does daily QA of our products. I work for > a phone company and we sell differnt lines, with differnt options > What I need to do is to convert one speadsheet where the features of > the phone lines are in a list, one feature per row > > Simplified input file > PhoneNum > 555-1111 Caller ID > 555-1111 Voice Mail > 555-1111 Call Waiting > 555-1111 Speed Dial > 555-2222 Caller ID > 555-2222 Call Forwarding > 555-2222 Call Waiting > > The output I need is to be 1 row per phone number, with each feature > checked in it own column > Desired output would be > PhoneNum CallerID VoiceMail CallWaiting SpeedDial > CallForwarding > 555-1111 Yes Yes Yes > Yes No > 555-2222 Yes No Yes > No Yes > > I have over 200K row of input, each phone may be upwards of 40 > features each > I recieve about 600 new entries a day > > this is a very simplified example, as I need to deal with the account > numbers, each account can have upto about 32 phone lines (each row > will be its own phone number), and the source data is broken into 6 > differnt files, each with its own key, that needs to be related to a > differnt key/file) These different files have the different "feature > sets" (for security reasons, none of these files have the phone > number, so I still need to pull that from a DIFFERENT file, and then > cross reference) > > There are, between yellow page features, phone feature, directory > assist listing info, there are about 100 items that each number COULD > have any selection of (I will need to build in error correcting, as > some feature will force other feature OFF, but that is a seperate item > unto itself) > > What would be the most effecient way to handle this? A top down from > the SOURCE, processing each line one by one, or getting a list of the > phone numbers, and then from the desired output, find the phone, and > desired feature to check for. > > I think the first way would be the best way, but I am not sure I would > need to process each source, line by line, and then doing a look of > the phone number in its speardsheet, then do a lookup in the output > file.I think with the fact of the cross referencing going on, option 2 > might be easier, but I would be doing lots of vlookup/matches, and > creating "key fields" to search on. > > Are there other ways I might consider? > > Thanks > Mctabish --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 6,500 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
