I have two columns of mostly identical strings in excel (including identical case), one is pasted from a CSV file and one is from an XLS file.
If I run EXACT, or just =, or =if(A1=B1,true,false) I always get a negative (false) value. Is this an issue with formats? What can I do to achieve the expected result?
Did you try Trim() Function to filter out extra space in the left or right ?
Importing from CSV create sometime some formatting problem, for example extra spaces o other char!
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I have below string in csv files
Part Number WP1166496 (AP6005317) replaces 1166496, 1156976.
Expected Output -
Part Number WP1166496 replaces 1166496, 1156976.
I want to replace (AP6005317) this with blanks.
As there are many rows with different values.
So how can I replace this string with brackets to blanks value.
I don't know how to achieve this exactly in Microsoft Excel.
If you look for find and replace feature, most probably you can see option to replace with regular expressions.
Use regular expression option and replace \(.*\) with (simple space). This will solve your problem.
Note : This is tested and verified in LibreOffice Calc.
I have an xml file imported into excel with the tags. How do i retrieve the value of the string between 2 strings.
Eg. "<"product_offer_group_id">"686819743"<"/product_offer_group_id">"
How do i retrieve 686819743 from this. To note the string length is varying and ranges from 1 to 20 digits.
you need to procced in excel? Not sure about possibility of usage of regular expressions(which are a pretty good solution for that case) in Excel standard functions, but with VBA You can for sure.
look here:
http://lispy.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/using-regex-functions-in-excel/
Alternativelly you can also try to play with standard Excel Text functions, like find, left, right etc.
If you want a solution without using VB script and only Excel functions, assuming your value is in cell A1, the following use of MID, FIND, and CHAR functions would work:
=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(34)&">"&CHAR(34),A1,1)+3,FIND(CHAR(34)&"<"&CHAR(34),A1,FIND(CHAR(34)&">"&CHAR(34),A1,1)+1)-FIND(CHAR(34)&">"&CHAR(34),A1,1)-3)
The above searches for the first occurrence of the tag ">", and takes whatever is between that tag and the next occurring "<" tag.
The magic number 3 in the function is the length of these two searched tags and used to cut down on calling an additional LEN(CHAR(34)&">"&CHAR(34)) function.
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.
I need to upload a CSV file, but my text data 080108 keeps converting to a number 80108. What do I do?
Use Quoted CSV
Use quotes in your CSV so that the column is treated as a string instead of an integer. For example:
"Foo","080108","Bar"
I have seen this often when viewing the CSV using Microsoft Excel. Excel will truncate leading zeros in all number fields. if the output is not coming from excel then check the output in note pad. If it is coming from excel you need to add a single quote mark ' to the beginning of each zip code. then excel will retain the leading 0.
I'm building a VBA program on Excel 2007 inputing long string of numbers (UPC). Now, the program usually works fine, but sometimes the number string seems to be converted to scientific notation and I want to avoid this, since I then VLook them up.
So, I'd like to treat a textbox input as an exact string. No scientific notation, no number interpretation.
On a related side, this one really gets weird. I have two exact UPC : both yield the same value (as far as I or any text editor can tell), yet one of the value gives a successful Vlookup, the other does not.
Anybody has suggestions on this one? Thanks for your time.
Long strings that look like numbers can be a pain in Excel. If you're not doing any math on the "number", it should really be treated as text. As you've discovered, when you want to force Excel to treat something as a string, precede it with an apostrophe.
There are a couple of common problems with VLOOKUP. The one you found, extra whitespace, can be avoided by using a formula such as
=VLOOKUP(TRIM(A1),B1:C:100,2,FALSE)
The TRIM function will remove those extraneous spaces. The other common problem with VLOOKUP is that one argument is a string and the other is a number. I run into this one a lot with imported data. You can use the TEXT function to do the VLOOKUP without having to change the raw data
=VLOOKUP(TEXT(A1,"00000"),B1:C100,2,FALSE)
will convert A1 to a five digit string before it tries to look it up in column B. And, of course, if your data is a real mess, you may need
=VLOOKUP(TEXT(TRIM(A1),"00000"),B1:C100,2,FALSE)