Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC for Excel in powershell - excel

I am having the worst luck with this line of code...
$Myexcel.visible = $true
$Myworkbook = $Myexcel.workbooks.add()
$Sheet1 = $Myworkbook.worksheets.item(1)
$Sheet1.name = "Summary"
$Sheet1.Cells.item(3, 3) = '=IF(B3>0,ROUND((B3/B16)*100),"N/A")&"%"'
Things I've tried:
Shifting/replacing all of the single quotes and double quotes in every configuration you can think of,
escaping all the special characters including the parentheses, the asterisks, the commas, the gt symbol, the percentage symbol, and the configurations of quotes,
and adjusting the scope of the cell (i.e. trying different cells, using a range instead of an item)
I had to make an account just to see if I could get some help on this one, I've spent way too much time trying to get it to work.

tl;dr
The error message isn't very helpful, and seems to be a pretty generic one that is given in a number of situations, but in your case the root cause is the ROUND function takes 2 arguments and you've only specified one.
Try this instead:
$Sheet1.Cells.item(3, 3) = '=IF(B3>0,ROUND((B3/B16)*100,2),"N/A")&"%"'
# add an argument here ^^
Long Version
I initially thought the problem was something to do with the .items part of your sample $Sheet1.Cells.item(3, 3) - I'm more familiar with just using $Sheet1.Cells(3, 3), but they both give the same error, as do the following attempts:
PS> $Sheet1.Cells.item(3, 3) = '=IF(B3>0,ROUND((B3/B16)*100),"N/A")&"%"'
OperationStopped: 0x800A03EC
PS> $Sheet1.Cells(3, 3) = '=IF(B3>0,ROUND((B3/B16)*100),"N/A")&"%"'
OperationStopped: 0x800A03EC
PS> $Sheet1.Cells(3, 3).Formula = '=IF(B3>0,ROUND((B3/B16)*100),"N/A")&"%"'
OperationStopped: 0x800A03EC
So as an experiment I tried manually pasting the formula into a new sheet and got this:
Microsoft Excel
You've entered too few arguments for this function.
[ Ok ]
Your root problem is the ROUND function takes 2 arguments - the value and the precision:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/round-function-c018c5d8-40fb-4053-90b1-b3e7f61a213c#:~:text=The%20ROUND%20function%20rounds%20a,of%20this%20function%20is%2023.78.
Syntax
ROUND(number, num_digits)
The ROUND function syntax has the following arguments:
number Required. The number that you want to round.
num_digits Required. The number of digits to which you want to round the number argument.
If you change your formula to, e.g.
=IF(B3>0,ROUND((B3/B16)*100,2),"N/A")&"%”
it should work fine.

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split String Variable in few numeric Variables in SPSS

I have a string variable with comma separated numbers that I want to split into four numeric variables.
makeArr
var1a
var1b
var1c
var1d
6,8,13,10
6
8
13
10
10,11,2
10
11
2
7,1,14,3
7
1
14
3
With:
IF (CHAR.INDEX(makeArr,',') >= 1)
f12a=CHAR.SUBSTR(makeArr,1,CHAR.INDEX(makeArr,',')-1).
EXECUTE.
IF (CHAR.INDEX(makeArr,',') >= 1)
f12b=CHAR.SUBSTR(makeArr,CHAR.INDEX(makeArr,',')+1,CHAR.INDEX(makeArr,',')-1).
EXECUTE.
I always get the first variable written without any problems.
This no longer works with the second variable because it has a different length and the comma is also written here.
So I would need a split at the comma and the division of the numbers over the comma.
Since char.substr will only tell you about the location of the first occurence of the search string, you need to start the second search from a new location - AFTER the first occurence, and this gets more and more complicated as you continue. My suggestion is create a copy of your array variable, which you will cut pieces off as you proceed - so that you are only searching for the first occurence of "," every time.
First I recreate your example data to demonstrate on.
data list free/makeArr (a20).
begin data
"6,8,13,10" "10,11,2" "7,1,14,3"
end data.
Now I copy your array into a new variable #tmp. Note that I add a "," at the end so the syntax stays the same for all parts of the array. I add the "#" at the beginning of the name to make it invisible, you can remove it if you want.
It is possible to do the following calculation in steps as you started to do, but nicer to loop throug the steps (especially if this is an example for a longer array).
string f12a f12b f12c f12d #tmp (a20).
compute #tmp=concat(rtrim(makeArr),",").
do repeat nwvr=f12a f12b f12c f12d.
do IF #tmp<>"".
compute nwvr=CHAR.SUBSTR(#tmp,1,CHAR.INDEX(#tmp,',')-1).
compute #tmp=CHAR.SUBSTR(#tmp,CHAR.INDEX(#tmp,',')+1).
end if.
end repeat.
EXECUTE.
Here I found a different solution for what I think is the same problem:
https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/question/0D50z00006PsP3tCAF/splitting-a-string-variable-divided-by-commas-into-new-single-variables?language=es
One line of code makes the work:
spssinc trans result=var_1 to var_4 type=20/formula 're.split(", *", makeArr)'.

How are the double-quotes managed when I put this code into a loop?

On SO, I was just given two answers that both work when called a single time. Now I want to put them in a loop and loop over several rows of data. However, I'm having a heck of time getting the code correct. I'm suspect it has to how I'm handling the double quotes.
The stand alone code lines are as follows.
Var = ActiveSheet.Evaluate("And(A1:F1)") and
Var = Application.WorksheetFunction.And(Range("A1:F1"))
for the first example I tried:
for i = 2 to 20
Var = ActiveSheet.Evaluate("And(A & i & :F & i)")
Next i
This produces "Error 2015"
for the second:
for i = 2 to 20
Var = Application.WorksheetFunction.And(Range("A" & i & ":F" & i))
Next i
This produces a line of red code
What am I doing wrong?
The Visual Basic Editor is making this harder than it should be, because its default syntax highlighting is making string literals the same color as identifiers:
You can change that under Tools/Options, and make Identifier Text a different color - here teal:
Now string literals are still black, but now identifiers look visually distinctive:
What you want to make sure, is that your variables are syntax-highlighted like identifiers - so they're teal, not black - like in your second example:
Contrast with your first attempt, where i doesn't get syntax-highlighted as the identifier it should be:
And since you know that i is a VBA variable and you want VBA to concatenate its value into this string, then i being syntax-highlighted as any other string literal (and not as an identifier) is your visual cue that something's off!
Compare to #JNevill's fixed version:
With Identifier Text having a different syntax highlighting than string literals in the editor, it becomes much easier to quickly locate a variable that's accidentally inside a string literal.
That first snippet isn't working, because ActiveSheet.Evaluate takes its parameter and gives it to Excel's expression evaluation engine, ...which has no idea what to do with this i. Variable i only exists in the execution context of the VBA code: only VBA code can evaluate its value.

Error handling - convert #NUM to zero

I'm writing a macro to cycle through a number of different spreadsheets that are in exactly the same format as each other. The source spreadsheets contain data in a table which occasionally contains the #NUM error (thanks to something going wrong in a different model!)
I have managed to account for all other error types, and some interesting formatting rules, using the below with a few other Case statements:
If IsNumeric(resultsarray(q,p) = false then
Select case ResultsArray(q,p)
Case IsError(ResultsArray(q, p))
ResultsArray(q, p) = 0
Case Left(ResultsArray(q, p), 2) = "0 "
ResultsArray(q, p) = 0
Unfortunately #NUM doesn't seem to fall into IsError's purview. Does anyone out there know how I can simply overwrite the error with a zero/0?
Thanks in advance!!
Steph
This #NUM error occurs if the input is not a valid number. On your situation i suggets you to check whether the input is number or not instead of error check. This way you can check #NUM error as well.(Or you can do it both) With IsNumeric(<input data here>) you can do it. So just add one more case (IsNumeric) to your select case.

WorksheetFunction.value() missing in Excel

In a spreadsheet formula, =VALUE("$100") will evaluate to the numeric value of 100. I then tried to access this function in VBA via WorksheetFunction object, however it is missing.
In VBA I tried the conversion function Val("$100"), however that returns 0. So how can I accomplish this via VBA?
Val() only really works if the string is all numbers I'm afraid - currency signs cause it a problem.
If you're always going to have the same currency sign in the string, it might be worth using something like
StringName = replace(StringName, "$", "")
to take out the $ by replacing it with "" - otherwise if your strings aren't always going to be this predictable the below question might help:
How to find numbers from a string?
see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.worksheetfunction.numbervalue
example of using above, which will return a value of -1234.56:
MsgBox WorksheetFunction.NumberValue("-$1,234.56", ".", ",")
Note that if the result is non-numeric, it throws an error. For example (swapping the comma grouping and decimal character params which is invalid in this case):
MsgBox WorksheetFunction.NumberValue("-$1,234.56", ".", ",")
I don't understand why the above link doesn't have any version info. It is currently dated 2019‎-‎05‎-‎23 - no idea if that's because it is new or if it was recently updated.

How do I sum results of two if statements in the same cell?

I'm looking to have the results of two If statements calculated and added in the same cell. I'm getting #VALUE! error.
=IF(ISERROR(GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Ship City'!$A$3,"ship_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29)),"",GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Ship City'!$A$3,"ship_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29))+IF(ISERROR(GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Recipient City'!$A$4,"recipient_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29)),"",GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Recipient City'!$A$4,"recipient_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29))
=IF(ISERROR(GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Ship City'!$A$3,"ship_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29)),"",GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Ship City'!$A$3,"ship_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29))
+
IF(ISERROR(GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Recipient City'!$A$4,"recipient_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29)),"",GETPIVOTDATA("Sum of CHARGES",'Recipient City'!$A$4,"recipient_city",$B$7,"carrier_type",$A$27,"INV_month_id",D$6,"INV_year_id",$D$5,"Company Name",$B29))
Your both IF functions return an empty string "". Using + operator with strings returns #VALUE!. There are different methods to fix it:
use 0 instead of ""
use SUM instead of + (it ignores strings).
And as #John Bustos mentioned in his comment, you can simplify your formula with
IFERROR(value,value_if_error)
IFERROR description

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