I have a field which requires me to input a float number on a free text field. I read the float number from excel.
However, I could not input the float number as I keep getting this error
"TypeError: object of type 'float' has no len()"
Let say I'm trying to put value 300.99 into a text box..
Do I need to convert into anything first?
According to me, you need to modify the format of excel cell, where you wrote the value 300.99. By default, the cell is formatted to General format. If you need to read a float value from a cell then change the format to Text from General.
Now driver will read a text value (300.99) from that field and pass it as it is. You can change the format by right click on the excel cell (cell from where you are reading value)>>Format cells>>Click on Text>> Ok.
Please let me know if this is helpful
Thanks!!
You could also go for following one:
${var} = Convert To String ${var}
Log ${var}
or
Log ${var.__str__()}
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when I import the data from csv, I cannot work on it because the excel treats the numbers as a text. When I try to sum them or get the average I get 0 or error becouse there are none number. It changes when i delete the dot '.' in one cell and put i again. That operation changes type of variable to number and it works. But I don't want to change tousends of data in this way. How can I convert it somehow to make i work?
Thanks for every answer.
Try to use general options selected properly dont import with text format select general format as given in picture.
I had a data set of 8 millon rows in a txt file with tab delimited format without quotes.
I had 5 of the 14 columns with date values in dd.MM.yyyy format.
Problem 1
I am trying to import the file. In "Format your colums" step, if I choose the type of that colums as "date", it gives errors and all cells in columns turns "?"
So I selected "polynomial" and planed to convert attribute type to date later.
Problem 2 (the real one)
I imported the data and put "nominal to date" operator. When I run I got error in line 14.899:
Cannot parse date: Unparseable date: "0"
I find the line and I see that columns separated wrong. There was a tab character in a string in the a prior cell. So values moved one cell right. And this row was not the only one that moved.
I want to split the rows that has the values in wrong data type for spesified attributes. So I cant correct them manually.
How can I do that in Rapidminer?
Or any other ideas to figure theese problems out?
so most likely you need to adjust the date formatting in this pull-down menu:
To be honest, I usually just import as polynominal and then convert to date in my process. It's easier and reproducable.
You appear to have a broken input file.
The best solution, obviously, is to fix the process that generates the data. Espace or replace tab characters and format the date in a non-ambiguous format such as the ISO date format.
Assuming that you can't fix the date, you should probably write a robust parser program yourself. A generic parser such as rapidminer's won't be able to fix every problem.
Basically what the title says. I need to convert cells with dollar values into a 10-digit format that will be a feed into a database program.
So, is there a way to custom format a cell so that I can point it towards a cell with $12.41 (for example), and have it automatically convert to 0000001241?
I already figured out how to get a cell to covert into 10 digit format, but for some reason it ignores the numbers after the period (the 41 cents).
Please try:
=TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(100*A1,".",""),"0000000000")
Is there a character to mask STRING values within the Excel TEXT function?
Attempting to use a mask of "0000-000000-00000-0000" seems to convert a string to a number. I simply want to add hyphens in between a specific number of characters.
I have also tried "####-######-#####-####" and "####-######-#####-####" but to no avail.
Background:
In a previous question, it was determined that a particular custom number mask could not be applied to a string because of the 15 significant digit limitation in Excel.
The goal was to convert a TEXT value of 5145350002005000080 to 5145-350002-00500-0080 using the following formula:
=text(A1,"0000-000000-00000-0000")
The output produced was:
5145-350002-00500-0000
You will need to use Excel string functions.
This works, though it is not the usual way of getting the job done:
=REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(A1,16,0,"-"),11,0,"-"),5,0,"-")
The more typical method:
=LEFT(A1,4)&"-"&MID(A1,5,6)&"-"&MID(A1,10,5)&"-"&RIGHT(A1,4)
Unfortunately it's impossible to apply markup to any string value using TEXT - as per TEXT function description, it may be done only for numbers:
The TEXT function converts a numeric value to text and lets you
specify the display formatting by using special format strings.
Syntax
TEXT(value, format_text)
The TEXT function syntax has the following arguments:
value Required. A numeric value, a formula that evaluates to a numeric value, or a reference to a cell containing a numeric value.
So it looks like the only way for you to achieve what you want - is to apply recommended string conversions.
Select the cells->Press Ctrl+1->from Number Tab of Format Cells Dialog select "custom" and paste in Type edit box Below.
"Boxes";"Boxes";"Boxes";"Boxes"
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33266500,332665100,332665200,332665300 was the original value, cell should look like this: 33266500,332665100,332665200,332665300 but what I see as the cell value in excel is 3.32665E+34
So the question is I want to convert it into the original string. I have found format function on google and I used it like these
format(3.32665E+34,"standard")
giving it as 332,6650,033,266,510,000,000,000
How to parse it or get back the orginal string? I belive format is the function in vba.
Excel has a 15 digit precision limit. If the numbers are already shown like this when you access the file, there is no way to get the number back - you have already lost some digits. VBA code and formulas will not help you.
If this is not the case, you can add a single quote ' mark before the number to store it as text. This will ensure Excel does not try to treat it as a number and thus lose precision.
If you want the value kept exactly, store the data as a string, not as a number. The data type you are using simply doesn't have the ability to do what you are asking it to do.
If you're starting with an Excel file that has already been created then you've already lost the information: Excel has tried to understand what it was given and its best guess has turned out to be wrong. All you can do (if you can't get the source data) is go back to the creator of the Excel file and tell them what's wrong.
If you're starting with, say, a text file that you're importing, then the news is much better:
If you're importing manually using the Text Import Wizard, then at "Step 3 of 3" you need to set "Column Data Format" for the problem field to "Text".
If you're using a macro, you'll need to specify a value for the TextFileColumnDataTypes property that does the same thing. The easiest way to get it right is to use the Macro Recorder.
If you want the four values in the string to be separate cells, then again, look at the Text Import Wizard settings: in Step 1 of 3 you need to set "Delimited" data type (usually the default) and in Step 2 make sure that "Comma" is checked.
The value needs to be entered into the cell as a string. You need to make whatever it is that inserts the value preceed the value with a '.