Excel vba select rows from text file - excel

Question

I am opening a large text file into excel sheet using VBA macro. However, my requirement is to only import few specific rows into the excel sheet which match a particular column values. As an example,
Name Age
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A1 20
A2 21
A3 20
A4 21
A5 22
A6 22
So, I wanted to import with criteria Age = 20 or 21. However, I do not want to use AutoFilter. I just wanted the vba to select the rows that match my filter and display them and ignore all the others. I used autofilter, but it is loading the whole data and showing only the rows of my interest.
The code that I wrote
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"TEXT;" + full_path, Destination:=Range( _
"A1"))
.Name = file_name
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.TextFilePromptOnRefresh = False
.TextFilePlatform = 437
.TextFileStartRow = 1
.TextFileParseType = xlDelimited
.TextFileTextQualifier = xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote
.TextFileConsecutiveDelimiter = False
.TextFileTabDelimiter = True
.TextFileSemicolonDelimiter = False
.TextFileCommaDelimiter = False
.TextFileSpaceDelimiter = False
.TextFileColumnDataTypes = Array(1)
.TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers = True
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
Range("A1").Select
Can you please help?

Answer 1

you can export data using the option get external data > from other sources > from microsoft query where you have to do few more actions to set up your text file as source, but once done you can add it as a connection which includes filters prior to populating onto the spreadsheet. you can read up more about how to set it up here: About using Microsoft Query to retrieve external data