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Variable and Excel....

Hi,

I am reading in the Enclosed Excel Sheet (sheet called "Delivery")

I want to be able to read some Columns, advance a few (having data I'm not interested in) and read another few.

In the past I have been able to do that using variables, but for some reason, today, I cant make it work

I want to read in the Day, Distance etc for each Registration no (eg 'WLC729GP'). The registration part reading, works fine.


(My code also included.)

I get the message...Field not found @1....

What am I doing wrong?

All help appreciated

Thank you

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Hi

If you load the excel-file directly to have a look on the field names, you will get the following

Directory;

LOAD [VEHICLE 1],

    
F2,

    
F3,

    
F4,

    
F5,

    
F6,

    
F7,

    
[VEHICLE 2],

    
F9,

    
F10,

    
F11,

    
F12,

    
F13,

    
F14,

    
[VEHICLE 3],

    
F16,

    
F17,

    
F18,

    
F19,

    
F20,

    
F21,

    
[VEHICLE 4],

    
F23,

    
F24,

    
F25,

    
F26,

    
F27,

    
F28,

    
[VEHICLE 5],

    
F30,

    
F31,

    
F32,

    
F33,

    
F34

FROM

[501_LOGBOOK_JULY12 V.2.xlsx]

(
ooxml, embedded labels, table is DELIVERY);



So, there is really no field @1, they all are named with F or somethimes Vehicle if you renamed it. Maybe you have to load this without field names, but then you will perhaps get A, B, C, ...

Regards Vicky

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Author

Hello Vicky,

I have tried loading them without field names, then I do get an A, or B.

Reading the older .xls files (biff) one would get

@1,

@2 etc. and you could manipulate these values with variables.

With .xlsx, you get A, B C etc, and you cannot manipulate

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Author

Hi,

But if you add a row before the first line in excel and manipulate the cells with a space, then you would have F instead of @ which you can manipulate.

Regards

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Author

Thats the thing - how do I manipulate 'F' - eg how do I add 7 columns to 'F'.