I have a large hex file i've imported into excel as a csv. So its not really a hex file, just hex strings in a csv format. I have told excel to treat the values as text and they are left justified as I would expect but when I replace all the "0x" chars with '' it changes 0x0000 to 0 (still left justified). Not a huge issue but it's still not treating it as text. The real problem is what it does with "0x18E3", it treats it as scientific notation and I get 1.80E+04 and its right justified. Its change my cell format from text to scientific.
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I have a csv file. One column has a number with 2 decimal digits like 100,00. But hides the trailing zeros (100). When I open it with notepad is 100,00.
Welcome to the mad world of CSVs and Excel.
That's one of the problems with the CSV files and excel: The value trailing zeros aren't shown by default. You can always modify the CSV within excel and then save it as *.xls or *.xlsx files.
There is no way to tell Excel to open a CSV with showing numbers per default with all given digits, if they are zero because excel does interpret them as "Standard".
If you don't need to work with the numbers as numbers you can always exchange the , with a . (that might be depending on the locale, not sure). Or just export it as a String:
The CSV:
test
="100,00"
13,37
100.00
=100,01
will produce the following output (locale de_DE):
In general, if you need to work with excel and want as much pre-formatted as possible, don't use CSV.
CSV is just comma-separated values. Just values. No formatting hints are included. So you can't have a number's display format specified within the CSV -- the numbers will be displayed in whatever format Excel shows.
If you'd rather you can change the default display format in Excel (for all sheets, not just CSV's). Not what you're asking, but perhaps it will be your preference. See How to change the default number format in Excel? for details on that option.
I have a .txt file which needs to be .csv file.
So for example .txt File
00
When I open .csv file
0
Even after I format the csv file it still opens up with no leading 0
Any suggestion
A CSV file is a text file saved with commas separating unformated values, created with a basic set of rules.
Some of the basic rules for CSV's:
Rules typical of these and other CSV specifications and implementations are as follows:
CSV is a delimited data format that has fields/columns separated by the comma character and records/rows terminated by newlines.
A CSV file does not require a specific character encoding, byte order, or line terminator format (some software does not support all line-end variations).
All records should have the same number of fields, in the same order.
Data within fields is interpreted as a sequence of characters, not as a sequence of bits or bytes.
Adjacent fields must be separated by a single comma. However, CSV formats vary greatly in this choice of separator character. In particular, in locales where the comma is used as a decimal separator, semicolon, Tab, or other characters are used instead.
1997,Ford,E350
Any field can be quoted (that is, enclosed within double-quote characters). Some fields must be quoted, as specified in following rules.
"1997","Ford","E350"
Fields with embedded commas or double-quote characters must be quoted.
1997,Ford,E350,"Super, luxurious truck"
Each of the embedded double-quote characters must be represented by a pair of double-quote characters.
1997,Ford,E350,"Super, ""luxurious"" truck"
The first record may be a "header", which contains column names in each of the fields (there is no reliable way to tell whether a file does this or not; however, it is uncommon to use characters other than letters, digits, and underscores in such column names).
Year,Make,Model
1997,Ford,E350
2000,Mercury,Cougar
(More from the source: Wikipedia.)
This method will also allow you to import a .txt file without changing the file type to .csv
When you open a csv into excel it will workout what type of format the data should be and convert it for you, for example two zeros 00 will be reformatted as a number and automatically changed to a 0
To import a csv into excel and keep the data formatted in its original way you will need to use the Text import wizard:
Open excel, in the ribbon click on Data, select From Text, then browse for the csv file.
Make sure Delimited is selected and click Next, select the delimiter that is used within your csv, click on Next
For each column that contains the two zeros 00, select them and then change the Column Data Format to Text, when all column formats have been changed click Finish
In all columns where the formatting has been changed to text, you will have have to change the cell formatting manually for any data that should not be treated as text.
I want to convert a hex number in excel to two 4 character hex values.
My approach is:
1. I am using TEXT function to convert hex number to 8-character hex.
2. Then, use MID function to extract first 4 characters and other 4 characters.
This approach works fine for most of the cases. However, I have come across a particular scenario, in which, it is failing.
For example,
My hex value is 62823E4. I wanted it to convert to 062823E4. However, internally excel is considering E4 as 10^4 (scientific notation). Formula used is shown in pic above.
Kindly help. Thanks in advance.
The TEXT function operates on numbers, so it will interpret hex data as decimal numbers.
Take a look at HEX2DEC and DEC2HEX functions. If you start with hex strings, you should first extract their values with HEX2DEC. Then, using DEC2HEX you can restore the hex string with the required number of digits.
A1='62823E4
A2=HEX2DEC(A1)
A3=DEX2HEX(A2;8)
A5=LEFT(A3;4)
A6=RIGHT(A3;4)
I have an Excel file which I need to convert to text file. Now the thing is that for each value there is a specified field size which should be there in text file. For example:
if my Excel contains a character of size 10 with value ABCDEF, then in text file it should be as ABCDEF____ (4 spaces).
After this next value is appended in similar manner with its rest of the size is left blank.
Any kind of hint or pointer will be really helpful on how to procede with this.
Assuming your string is in A1, and its length isn't more than the 10 characters:
=A1&REPT(" ",10-LEN(A1))
I'm wondering if there is a way to convert an .xsxl file into .csv while preserving everything in its entirety.
I have a column that for some rows has values like 0738794E5 and when I convert it through "save as", the value turns to 7.39E+10. I understand that some values which have an "E" will be turned to the latter format but this conversion is no use to me since that "E" doesn't stand for exponentiation.
Is there a setting to preserve the values the way they are i.e. text/string?
One option is to create an additional (or replacement) column that has the target values either enclosed in double quotes or prepended by an alpha character.
The quotes or alpha character will guarantee that the problem values come in as text. When the csv file is opened, the quotes or alpha will still be there, so you would need to use a string operation (MID or RIGHT, probably) to recover the original string values.
My dilemma wasn't real and only appeared to be so.
When I convert the .xlsx into .csv and open the .csv, it shows the improperly-converted values.
However, when I run my application, read from the csv, and output what's been read, I get the values contained within the .xlsx just like I wanted.
I'm not sure how/why this is the way it is but it works now.