Error Handling

pratnimk

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Hello World

I'm trying my hand at error handling
& printing the same to a log file

Issue:
If there is any error while extracting the report path of any file, print the error & file name to a log file

Here's the current macro I have to extract file details

Code:
[COLOR=#333333][IMG]http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/double-j-design/ravenna-3d/24/File-Copy-icon.png[/IMG]
<code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 12px;">Sub AgentInfo_Macro()

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False          'De-initializes Excel Screen Flicker

    'Declaring constants & variables
    Dim xRow As Long                            'Row ID
    Dim xCol As Long                            'Col ID
    Dim xDirect                                 'Default Path
    Dim xFname                                  'File Name
    Dim InitialFoldr                            'Default Folder to start from
    Dim EntName                                 'Path Name + File Name
    Dim text As String                          'text to compare
    Dim textline As String                      'Line in text file
    Const jobID As String = "jobID="            'Constant for filtering Agent Files only
    Dim i As Integer                            'For loop to remove blanks
    Dim openPos As Integer
    Dim closePos As Integer
    
    InitialFoldr = "D:\Users\pratnimk\Desktop"                      'Startup folder to begin searching from

    'Prompt window to browse and select desired folder
    With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)          'Folder picker
        .InitialFileName = Application.DefaultFilePath & ""        'Default path set
        .Title = "Please select a folder to list files from"        'Prompt message
        .InitialFileName = InitialFoldr                             'Initialization of default path
        .Show

        'Selection of folder, path & file names based on -> jobID= <- keyword
        If .SelectedItems.Count <> 0 Then
            xDirect = .SelectedItems(1) & ""
            xFname = Dir(xDirect)
                        
            Sheets("Sheet1").Activate
            Range("A2").Select                                      'Active cell A2
            
            Do While xFname <> ""                                   'While loop starts when File Names are retrieved under desired folder
                EntName = 0                                         'Initialization of EntName i.e. Path Name + File Name
                text = 0                                            'Initialization of text in files
                
                EntName = xDirect & xFname                          'Assigning Path + File Name to EntName
                
                'To check if JobID exists in file -> proving the file is related to Agents
                Open EntName For Input As #1                        'Opening file
                    Do Until EOF(1)
                        Input #1, textline
                        text = text & textline                      'Initializing to 1st line in text
                        openPos = 0
                        closePos = 0
                        'Searching for text -> jobID
                        If InStr(text, jobID) <> 0 Then
                            ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol) = Mid(text, InStr(text, jobID) + 7, Len(textline))   'Extracting JobID to Excel
                            closePos = InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol), """")
                            ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol) = Mid(ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol), openPos + 1, closePos - openPos - 1)
                        Else                            'Exiting File
                            GoTo SkipAhead
                            
                        End If
                    Loop
                    Close #1                                            'Closing the text file
                
                    xCol = xCol + 3
                
                    [B][I]'Error Handling for Report Path
                    On Error GoTo Error_Report_Path[/I][/B]
                    
                    'Searching for report path
                    text = 0
                    Open EntName For Input As #1                        'Opening file
                        Do Until EOF(1)
                            Input #1, textline
                            text = text & textline                      'Initializing to 1st line in text
                            openPos = 0
                            closePos = 0
                            'Searching for text -> report path
                            If InStr(text, "path=") <> 0 Then
                                ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol) = Mid(text, InStr(text, "path=") + 5, Len(textline)) 'Extracting report path to Excel
                                openPos = InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol), """")
                                closePos = InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol), ">")
                                ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol) = Mid(ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol), openPos + 1, closePos - openPos - 3)
                                
                            Else
                                ActiveCell.Offset(xRow, xCol) = "No underlying report"
                                
                            End If
                        Loop
SkipAhead:
                Close #1                                            'Closing the text file
                
                xRow = xRow + 1
                xCol = 0
                xFname = Dir
                Loop
                
                End If
                
                End With
    
                Application.ScreenUpdating = True           'Re-initializes Excel Screen Flicker
Done:
                Exit Sub

[B][I]Error_Report_Path:
                Logger "Report Path Error", Err.Number, Err.Description
                Resume Next[/I][/B]

            End Sub</code>[/COLOR]

and the associated logger macro

Code:
[COLOR=#333333][IMG]http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/double-j-design/ravenna-3d/24/File-Copy-icon.png[/IMG]
<code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 12px;">Sub Logger(sType As String, sSource As String, sDetails As String)
    
    Dim sFilename As String
    sFilename = "D:\Users\pratnimk\Desktop\AgentInfo_log.txt"
    
    ' Archive file at certain size
    If FileLen(sFilename) > 20000 Then
        FileCopy sFilename _
        , Replace(sFilename, ".txt", Format(Now, "ddmmyyyy hhmmss.txt"))
        Kill sFilename
    End If
    
    ' Open the file to write
    Dim filenumber As Variant
    filenumber = FreeFile
    
    Open sFilename For Append As #filenumber
    
        Print #filenumber, CStr(Now) & "," & sType & "," & sSource _
        & "," & sDetails & "," & Application.UserName
        Close #filenumber
    
End Sub
</code>[/COLOR]

Please help


Thanks
P
 
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