How to Create new Excel file out from seleniumRC result? - excel

I'm creating a test case using selenium RC.
The General flow of the process is to get data from an Excel File.
Then run the SeleniumRC.
To get the result I place a printout command. All output is visible in the console. (using eclipse)
What I need to do next is to store all this data into a new Excel File. Can anyone help me on how to generate my output into an excel file.

Store the result in variables and then write them into the excel using the Java Excel API.

Use Jexcel API.This link may be useful to you.
http://r4r.co.in/java/apis/jexcel/

A simply way I will suggest is to append all the printout statements in a storage variable like string buffer(Java) with delimiters like | symbols at the end of each line and then write this information into a text file.(line by line by split with the help of | symbols)
If you want to store this information in excel you will have to use the Apache POI Project to write data into excel sheets.(http://poi.apache.org/)

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Matlab writematrix in Excel gives error: Name cannot be the same as built-in name

I want to copy an Excel file to a different path through Matlab and then write in it also using Matlab. Somehow I get the error: Name cannot be the same as built-in name.
As I want to write multiple times in the file, I don't want to solve this problem manuelly each time, I want the code to run through without me having to do something constantly.
Is there any way I can solve this problem all at once through code? Does this happen because I copy the Excel file first?
The code looks like this:
path_source_template1 = 'Blabla1\Template1.xlsx';
timestamp = datestr(now);
timestamp = strrep(timestamp, ':', '-');
timestamp = strrep(timestamp, ' ', '-');
path_output = fullfile('Blabla2\',timestamp);
mkdir(fullfile(path_output));
path_output_template1 = strcat(path_output,'\Template1.xlsx');
copyfile(path_source_template1,path_output_template1);
Then I want to write in the Template1.xlsx:
writematrix(test,path_output_template1,'Sheet','Test','Range','A1',UseExcel=true,AutoFitWidth=false);
Then I get this error:
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The input to the writematrix file uses the name, value format, so in this line:
writematrix(test,path_output_template1,'Sheet','Test','Range','A1',UseExcel=true,AutoFitWidth=false);
you should have:
..., 'Sheet','Test','Range','A1','UseExcel', true,'AutoFitWidth', false);
Disclaimer: I haven't tested this, but I'm fairly certain this will fix your problem.
The correct call to the writematrix would be:
writematrix(test,path_output_template1, 'Sheet','Test','Range','A1', 'UseExcel', true,'AutoFitWidth',false);
When writing datetime data to a spreadsheet file, you must set both 'PreserveFormat' and the 'UseExcel' Name-Value pair to true to preserve the existing cell formatting. You can check the documentation writematrix.
In order to answer to the error I tested the code locally in Matlab 2019b and works well setting the test variable in this example way: test = magic(5);.
Maybe the error could be in the data that you use in test variable or in that if you run the code iteratively very fast the path_output could exist, One way to improve this could be with a more accurate timestamp.

XBA parsing and update with Excel VBA

I'm trying to make an XML parser/updater through Excel VBA.
First of all, I have been going back and forth between Excel VBA and Python but it seemed like Excel VBA was a better option to me.
However, I am open to any method really so please let me know if anyone has a different suggestion that would work better.
So, what I want to do with this application.
Parse XML and note the information on Excel format
I need name and the value of each attributes along with the text value of each node
After getting the information in the Excel format, I want to be able to revise values and output back to the XML format
So, in a nutshell, I am really aiming for a XML editor I guess?
But I am stuck at a few issues from the startline.
Here's a brief implementation of the XML parsing portion:
'load xml document
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.validateOnParse = False
xmlDoc.Load(xmlFilepath)
'get document elements
Set xmlDocElement = xmlDoc.DocumentElement
Debug.Print xmlDocElement.xml
For i = 0 To xmlDocElement.ChildNodes.Length - 1
Debug.Print xmlDocElement.ChildNodes(i).xml
For j = 0 To xmlDocElement.ChildNodes(i).Attributes.Length - 1
Debug.Print xmlDocElement.ChildNodes(i).Attributes.Item(j).Name
Debug.Print xmlDocElement.ChildNodes(i).Attributes.Item(j).Value
Next j
Debug.Print xmlDocElement.ChildNodes(i).Text
Next i
The above method works well more or less with an exception for two conditions, so far at least.
XML file cannot be loaded if the text includes &/>/<
XML file cannot be loaded if it includes more than 1 highest parent node.
Text including &/>/< sample:
<parenttag>
<childtag>I love mac&cheese</childtag>
</parenttag>
The answer I found online was quite conclusive:
Revise the text so that it does not use &/>/<.
But I cannot modify the text and need to keep the current format.
Any way to bypass this?
More than 1 highest parent node sample:
<parenttag>
<childtag>Text</childtag>
</parenttag>
<differenttag>
<childtag>Some other text</childtag>
</differenttag>
XML Load does not work with multiple parent tags in 1 XML file.
And again, I cannot modify the XML file content, so I need a way around the load error.
I also want to note that I have initially started this project
by reading XML file as a text and process line by line.
But, this did not work well with multi-line content
and thus trying to figure out a way to process XML file properly.
This question really includes multiple portions but I would really appreciate if I can get any help.
The issue is that any XML parser will only accept valid XML. And
<childtag>I love mac&cheese</childtag>
is just no valid XML. It should be encoded as
<childtag>I love mac&cheese</childtag>
So that is what you need to fix. You can only work with a standard (like XML standard) if everyone follow the XML standard rules and produces valid XML. Otherwise your code might look like XML but it is no XML (until it is valid).
Also multiple root elements is not allowed in XML. If it has multiple roots then it is no XML. So to get out of your issue the only thing you can do is fix those issues before loading the file into a parser. For example you can add a root tag to make your multiple parents become childs of that root:
<myroot>
<parenttag>
<childtag>Text</childtag>
</parenttag>
<differenttag>
<childtag>Some other text</childtag>
</differenttag>
</myroot>
And & that are not encoded yet need to be changed to & to make them valid.
The only other option is to write your own parser to parse that custom files which are not XML. But that will not be possible in 2 lines of code as you will need to develop a parser for your NON-XLM files.

Extract the ANOVA table to Excel/.csv

I'm wondering if it's possible to extract the table that results when running ANOVA to an Excel or .csv file. I'm running a repeated measures two-way ANOVAs with RMAOV2 (http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/5578-rmaov2). Here is the code I'm using, which works fine, and it produces a table with the ANOVA results.
dir ='/Users/Documents/folder';
cd(dir)
file = readtable('file.csv');
toAnalyse = table2array(file);
RMAOV2(toAnalyse);
However, when I tried to save the ANOVA results in order to then export them to Excel or in a .csv file, this doesn't work:
ANOVAresults = RMAOV2(toAnalyse);
Error:
Output argument "RMAOV2" (and maybe others) not assigned during call to "RMAOV2".
Any suggestion would be very appreciated.
If you take a look into the source code of the file, you will notice that it never assigns anything to the return variable. Instead it only prints data to the command window.
To resolve this problem you have to edit the source code and assign the data you want to return. Alternatively you can contact the Autor.

How to know which csv delimiter is being used on a pc using php?

I am generating a csv file.
I would like to set up the delimiter dynamically, that is, get the value of the list-separator set up on the pc and then use it in my csv.
Is it possible??
No it's not. You want your csv to open in Excel. Correct? Then use [TAB] and direct the file to be saved ".xls" and not ".csv". The worst case is a warning message at opening regarding the file format for the user, but data will be visible in cells for sure.
Another approach for excel files is to use Excel(X)ML; it's very simple for raw data (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/overview-of-xml-in-excel-HA010206396.aspx)
I did generate a CSV using ',' as delimiter..But on my client side, it was not working. I replaced the delimiter by ';' and it works on the client side.
That means the client expected ; instead of ,. You cannot know what the client expects unless he tells you. There are an uncountable number of programs that use the CSV format, there's no universal way to figure out which delimiter they expect. Usually it works the other way around: you create the CSV and specify to the client what delimiter you have used. There's no technical protocol to do this though, CSV is too informal to have any such universal specification.

Not using colnames when reading .xls files with RODBC

I have another puzzling problem.
I need to read .xls files with RODBC. Basically I need a matrix of all the cells in one sheet, and then use greps and strsplits etc to get the data out. As each sheet contains multiple tables in different order, and some text fields with other options inbetween, I need something that functions like readLines(), but then for excel sheets. I believe RODBC the best way to do that.
The core of my code is following function :
.read.info.default <- function(file,sheet){
fc <- odbcConnectExcel(file) # file connection
tryCatch({
x <- sqlFetch(fc,
sqtable=sheet,
as.is=TRUE,
colnames=FALSE,
rownames=FALSE
)
},
error = function(e) {stop(e)},
finally=close(fc)
)
return(x)
}
Yet, whatever I tried, it always takes the first row of the mentioned sheet as the variable names of the returned data frame. No clue how to get that solved. According to the documentation, colnames=FALSE should prevent that.
I'd like to avoid the xlsReadWrite package. Edit : and the gdata package. Client doesn't have Perl on the system and won't install it.
Edit:
I gave up and went with read.xls() from the xlsReadWrite package. Apart from the name problem, it turned out RODBC can't really read cells with special signs like slashes. A date in the format "dd/mm/yyyy" just gave NA.
Looking at the source code of sqlFetch, sqlQuery and sqlGetResults, I realized the problem is more than likely in the drivers. Somehow the first line of the sheet is seen as some column feature instead of an ordinary cell. So instead of colnames, they're equivalent to DB field names. And that's an option you can't set...
Can you use the Perl-based solution in the gdata instead? That happens to be portable too...

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