How do you use Text() with a format that has a string inside it ?
=TEXT(A1,"Comfi+"#0"(JO)";"Comfi-"#0"(JO)")
Tried """ both the inner string :
=TEXT(A1," """Comfi+"""#0"""(JO)""";"""Comfi-"""#0"(JO)""" ")
Same result with &char(34)&
Similar issue here, but I couldn't transpose the solution to my problem : How to create strings containing double quotes in Excel formulas?
Post Solution edit :
Building an almanac/calendar with the following (now fixed)formula :
=CONCATENATE(
TEXT(Format!K25,"d"),
" J+",
Format!S25,
" ",
TEXT(Format!AA25,"""Comfi+""#0""(JO)"";""Comfi-""#0""(JO)"""),
" ",
Format!AI25
)
Giving the following output in each cell :
9
J+70
Comfi+21(JO)
CRG
You've got too many quotation marks inside:
=TEXT(A1,"""Comfi+""#0""(JO)"";""Comfi-""#0""(JO)""")
You were tripling many of the inside quotation marks.
Personally, doubling up double-quotes within a quoted string is something I try to avoid at all costs. You can 'escape' the text into literals with a backslash.
=TEXT(A1,"\C\o\m\f\i+#0\(\J\O\);\C\o\m\f\i-#0\(\J\O\)")
'alternately
="Comfi"&text(a1, "+#0;-#0")&"(JO)"
Not all of those actually need to be escaped; only reserved characters. However, I usually escape them all and let Excel sort them out.
Related
I'm using the following to check if a cell contains any invalid characters.
If Target Like "*[\!%^:~#|#.;`\/*$,]*" Then
This works fine and return the correct error message.
I'd like to add Double Quotes " to the check, but when I add " I get errors.
How do I do this ?
Thanks
Doubling the quotes should do it:
Like "*[\!%^:~#|#.;`\/*$,""]*"
Note that \ is the LIKE escape char, so "\!" means in fact "!".
Test:
a = "abc""de"
? a
abc"de
? a like "*[b]*"
True
? a like "*[""]*"
True
I'm trying to replace all single quotation marks with double quotation marks in Clojure. i.e. if the string id " 'name' " I want it to become " "name" ". How can I do that?
I've been trying to use the replace function like this:
(clojure.string/replace " 'The color is red' " #"'" """)
but it is not working.
You've forgotten to escape the double quotation mark
(clojure.string/replace " 'The color is red' " #"'" "\"")
I do this so often I made some convenience functions:
quotes->double
quotes->single
You can find the details here. You may also find this template project useful, esp. the documentation list at the end.
I have a string value with an apostrophe like this:
"I\\xE2\\x80\\x99m going now."
How can I get correct apostrophe value?
"I`m going now."
As you know, \xE2\x80\x99 is the a unicode character U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, but I have a string representation instead of byte...
Perhaps this is what you want:
utf8_apostrophe = b'\xe2\x80\x99'.decode("utf8")
str = "I"+utf8_apostrophe+"m going now"
Aside:
I ran into this when converting a single quotation mark, within a UTF-8-encoded tweet, into a normal single quote.
import re
original_tweet = 'I’m going now'
string_apostrophe = "'"
print re.sub(utf8_apostrophe, string_apostrophe, original_tweet)
which produces
I'm going now
I try to import a CSV file in Excel, using ; as delimiters, but some columns contains
; and/or quotes.
My problem is : I can use double quotes to ignore the delimiters for a specific string, but if there is a double quote inside the string, it ignores delimiters until the first double quote, but not after.
I don't know if it's clear, it's not that easy to explain.
I will try to explain with a example :
Suppose I have this string this is a;test : I use double quotes around the string, to ignore the delimiter => It works.
Now if this string contains delimiters AND double quotes : my trick doesn't work anymore. For example if I have the string this; is" a;test : My added double quotes around the string ignore delimiters for the first part (the delimiter in the part this; is is correctly ignored, but since there is a double quote after, Excel doesn't ignore the next delimiter in the a;test part.
I tried my best to be as clear as possible, I hope you'll understand what is the problem.
When reading in a quoted string in a csv file, Excel will interpret all pairs of double-quotes ("") with single double-quotes(").
so "this; is"" a;test" will be converted to one cell containing this; is" a;test
So replace all double-quotes in your strings with pairs of double quotes.
Excel will reverse this process when exporting as CSV.
Here is some CSV
a,b,c,d,e
"""test1""",""",te"st2,"test,3",test"4,test5
And this is how it looks after importing into Excel:
Import your Excel file in openOffice and export as CSV (column escaped with " unlike Excel csv, utf8, comma against ";").
I am trying to split something like this
When the Source is from a webpage and contains this value multiple times, but I don't think will split it because of the "<" character, any way around this?
SourceSplit = Split(Source, "<span class='BText' id='BText'>")
I tried using Chr(60) instead, didn't like that either, any ideas?
Thanks for any help
I would guess that the HTML uses double quotes for attribute values, not single. You need to escape the double quotes:
SourceSplit = Split(Source, "<span class=""BText"" id=""BText"">")