I have a C++ application which calls the business logic and generates a CSV that contains different transaction data.
Business partner wants to have this CSV as an Excel file and with different formatting options such as headers with bold text and numbers formatting with commas, etc.
I can not find any option to do this in c++ but found that I can convert the CSV file to Excel using PowerShell. I am finding the below difficulty in PowerShell:
Though the amount fields are in number format - I can not see the
result as "1,234,56.00". It just shows like 123456 only. But when I
check the format option it shows 1,234.10.. I have added the line in
PowerShell as below:
$worksheet.columns.item(2).NumberFormat = "#,##0.00_);[Red](#,##0.00)"
I have multiple sections in the same work sheet with multiple header
sections. I need to format some of the texts in bold. I can
change the format to bold as below.
$worksheet.Range("1:1").Font.Bold = $True
But the issue for me is the report will generate different numbers of records based transaction details. So I can't take the cell range and decide to format statically.
Import you csv with import-csv command
Modify your column values with good format (cast, substring etc) into loop
Export into other temporary csv
Transform your temporary csv in Excel. You will found lot of code here
There is an excellent module for Excel here by Douge Finke
Regards,
Kvprasoon
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I collect various data in time plots. If I copy the timeplot data and then paste it into Excel, the number format is often wrong. For example, I often get a date like Aug 94 instead of the actual number from the TimePlot. Unfortunately, I can't easily format this date into a number either, since the formatted number does not match the actual number from the timeplot. If I format the date in the same format as the number above and below, then I get the number 34547. However, this number does not correspond to the actual number of the TimePlot. Anyone know how I can prevent this problem?
You can only solve this on the Excel side, AnyLogic provides the raw data for you. Excel then interprets stuff. You can test it by pasting the chart raw data into a txt or csv file.
So either fix your Excel settings or paste into a csv, then into an xlsx.
Or better still: Do not manually paste at all. Instead, write your model results into the AnyLogic database and export to Excel from there: this takes away a lot of the pain for you. Check the example models to learn how to do that.
This is not AnyLogic question, rather an Excel & computer formatting problem. One way of resolving this is changing computer's date and time settings.
Another way is to save your output at txt file in AnyLogic. Replace all . with ,. Then open empty Excel, select Text format for the columns. Copy-paste from the txt file.
In Excel there are a few options
when you paste use paste as text only option
But this does not always work as Excel will still try to format the stuff for you
Use the Paste Special option and then choose text
Also possible this will not work, based on your Excel settings.
Paste using the text import wizard
(This works for me without fail)
On step 2 choose tab delimited
On step 3 choose Column format as text for every column (you need to select them in the little diagram below)
You will then see the data exactly as it came from AnyLogic. See the example below where I purposefully imported some text which has something that Excel will think is a date. You will now be able to see what in your data made Excel thing your data needed to be formatted the way it is and then you can fix it. (post a new question if you struggle with this conversion)
But as noted by other answers first prize is to write all the important data to external files. But I know that even I sometimes want to export data from a chart and review it in Excel. Option 3 works for me everytime
I have this data that I exports from some ERP in Citrix to the same Excel in Citrix,
Some example when i paste:
Doc.Curr.
-4,248,057.00
-25,998,733.00
25,998,733.00
-192,534.00
-118,509.00
192,534.00
But when i export this to a Excel in MacOS doesnt recognize like a number format, only like data without format, how can i solve this?
Many systems that export to Excel produce text instead of number. This has to do with the way that the system report was built in the exporting system. For example, the system report uses spaces to separate report columns. Excel parses the data according to the spacing but will not convert the text to numbers. In such a case you need to do that yourself
There are several ways to convert text to numbers, including
copy a cell with a zero, use paste special to paste over the text that should be numbers, using the option to "Add"
use text to columns on one column of numbers
If you need to do that on a regular basis, you may want to look into Power Query (Get and Transform) to load the data and perform any cleanup in there. It will be faster in the long run.
I have a CSV file like this:
"Foo","Bar","16/5"
Open it with Excel and it decides the the "16/5" is a date and displays 16 May, but I just want it to display the string verbatim on loading the CSV without having to perform any additional actions in Excel and I'm not sure how to achieve this unless I put some white space at the start of the string but that's nasty.
Use the Text Import Wizard - you can assign specific data types to each column as needed.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/text-import-wizard-HP010102244.aspx
I run a process to produce a rather large CSV file of data. Sometimes I find it helpful to open the CSV in excel, make changes manually, and then re-save. However, if there are dates in the CSV, excel automatically reformats them. Is there a way to prevent excel from doing this? It would be helpful if I could turn off all text formatting altogether.
If you prepend an apostrophe ' to the beginning of any date string during the export process, Excel will read the value literally (i.e. as plain text) rather than trying to convert it to a date.
This particular solution is handled during the export process. I'm not sure how you would change Excel to treat the file differently at runtime.
Excel does some nasty tricks when outputting XML. One of its tricks is to drop left most column delimiters if 16 or so consecutive rows have no values for these columns. This means that if you're splitting the lines up based on commmas then these rows will have a different number of columns to the rest.
It will also drop any initial 0's so things like numeric Ids can become messed up.
Another risk you run is chopping the file off short since Excel can only support a maximum number of rows. (Prior to Excel 2007 this was around 65536)
If you need to do anything to a CSV file other than read it use a text editor.
When you import the CSV file into Excel, be sure to pre-format the date column as text. There's a frequently overlooked option in the parsing that allows you to control the format column by column. This also works well for preventing the leading zeros in New England ZIP codes from getting dropped in your contact lists.
If you used the excel file version which is 2010 or later (not sure lower version), you can set up to use current operation-system date format or not in Excel/CSV file.
Right Click cell with date value (e.g. '9/12/2013') in CSV file and pop up the menu
Click 'Format Cells' and open a pop up screen
Go to 'Number' tab and you can see 'Date' was selected in 'Category' (left side) and 'Type' on the right side
Observed that there are two types of Date format (one is with () and another is not with ()). Read the comment there and you can find that you can use the date format which is not with date. It means that your changes to the CSV file will not be applied with your current operation-system date format. So, I think date format won't be changed in CSV file in this case.
I have a simple report that I want to export to a CSV file. There is only the detail line that is grouped by one field, no group header, and a group footer for totals. The problem is when I export to CSV format, the total row for a group is listed in front of every record?
If I export to Excel and then save as a CSV file, the total row is where it belongs. However one field is spread across 3 columns then those columns are "merged and centered" which adds two commas in the middle of the line. And one column is added at the beginning of the record and two at the end of the record, for 3 more extra commas.
It would be easy enough to write a macro to "clean up" the spread sheet and export as a csv file for my end users. However corporate "insecurity" will not allow the end users to have macros.
Any help, suggestions, pointers to where else to look greatly appreciated.
cheers
bob
The CSV generated by any standard reporting tool does a flat data structure and hence would repeat all data set.
The XLS generated by the reproting tools are typically to be opened in the XLS and its XLS default behaviour to put additional commas for every merged cell.
The best way is to create a report with a layout that has equal data length columns even for the header, ie while formatting the report do not put the header in the center with larger lenght, bold and italics etc, put it as the first column and match the lenght with the data in the detail record.
This way you would be able to create a report that does not look presentable in XLS but would give you required data in the CSV