InputExcel java.text.ParseException: Unparseable number: "(2,000.00)"

[Anonymous]

Hi I do not know if anyone has the same problem, I found a lot of posts saying that this has been solved.
I am running version 5.3.0, and the problem is that the excel that I am trying to import has numbers in a particular field, however I am setting the schema to import everything as string.
However the tFileInputExcel is giving me this error: Exception in component tFileInputExcel_1
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable number: "(2,000.00)"
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Ruben

[Loneliness]

Hi Ruben, maybe you should post some other information o screenshots to show how did you configure your schema and how you are carrying your output out..
Anyway, i tried to do the same thing using an excel file as a data source and a tmap with a tlogrow.
Configuring the column as a string in the schema of your tfileinputexcel, and doing the same in your output you should have no errors...as in the screenshots below

[Anonymous]

Hi cheaito,
Thanks for your prompt reply, basically I have exactly what you have from the talend side.
My issue is with excel, the cell that has the value -2000 has a cell format "Custom" and Type is "#,##0.00;-#,##0.00" could be this that is giving the error.
It seems that although I am setting the schema from talend as string it is still trying to parse the value as number.
Regards
Ruben

[Anonymous]

To add to my post above, that was the issue, once i changed the format to text from excel it worked.
Having said that this file is exported like that from a system so I cannot stay modifying the file prior of importing the data.
Is there something I can do?
Thanks in advance
Ruben

[Loneliness]

I modified the column format in my excel file and i selected the same custom format you are using and it works fine for me!! Try to post a screenshot of the excel's schema and the tmap editor in Talend...maybe you are missing something there.
Regards
A.C

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply, i am posting some images below.
One thing I noticed that the excel has function within its fields.
Regards
Ruben

[Anonymous]

Found this post maybe it will help me...
http://www.talendforge.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=110063

[Anonymous]

It seems like I managed to work around this issue, by removing these columns and using the raw columns and do the calculations in TMAP.
thanks
Ruben