Question

I am trying to use regular expressions in a macro for an Excel document.

Here is what I have so far:

dim regex
regex.pattern = "\s+"
for p = 3 to totalparamcount
    if (regex.test(Worksheets("table").Cells(p,1)) then
        msgbox ("blah blah")
    end if
next

The pattern I am trying to match is one or more spaces, tabs, newlines, which I saw is denoted by "\s".

The line ‘if (regex.test(Worksheets("table").Cells(p,1)) then‘ is getting this error:

Run-time error '424':

Object required

I am using VBA 7.0 in Excel.

Answer 1

You need to create the regexp object, ie

Dim regex
Set regex = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
regex.Pattern = "\s+"