unable to get original cell value from a "number stored as text"
I am running against a little issue. I have an excel spreadsheet, that I need to be able to read in C#. No problem there. The issue is that the system creating the spreadsheet uses a particular trick to format a number, so that the leading "0" is intact and displays. For example, the system writes a '02.7 so that excel displays 02.7.
When I travers the Range and read the value of the cell in c# or even the VBA Macro editor built into Excel, I get the numerical 02.7. I do not get the text (with leading apostrophe) '02.7. I need the full text. Does anyone know how excel stores the original data in the cell and how to get it back. I noticed that there is a little green triangle in the top, left corner of the cell. This has an error called "Number Stored as Text" I have tried looking at the range's error object with no luck. Here is how I am getting the value in c Excel.Range rngCurrent = exlRange.get_Range("B3", System.Reflection.Missing.Value); rngCurrent.Value2.ToString() Thanks!! |
unable to get original cell value from a "number stored as text"
Can you infer the apostrophe if the first character is"0". Perhaps using
the IsNumeric function to make sure it's not alphanumeric? -- Jim Rech Excel MVP "cedralpass" wrote in message ... |I am running against a little issue. I have an excel spreadsheet, that I need to be able to read in C#. No problem there. The issue is that the system creating the spreadsheet uses a particular trick to format a number, so that the leading "0" is intact and displays. For example, the system writes a '02.7 so that excel displays 02.7. | | When I travers the Range and read the value of the cell in c# or even the VBA Macro editor built into Excel, I get the numerical 02.7. I do not get the text (with leading apostrophe) '02.7. I need the full text. Does anyone know how excel stores the original data in the cell and how to get it back. I noticed that there is a little green triangle in the top, left corner of the cell. This has an error called "Number Stored as Text" I have tried looking at the range's error object with no luck. | | Here is how I am getting the value in c# | Excel.Range rngCurrent = | exlRange.get_Range("B3", System.Reflection.Missing.Value); | | rngCurrent.Value2.ToString(); | | Thanks!! |
unable to get original cell value from a "number stored as text"
Unfortunately we can not loop through each cell, as these worksheets are very large. We are sucking out the data in bulk. Calliing a function each time would be very time consuming. When looping through each cell in a worksheet, extraction of the data takes over 2-3 minutes on a very fast box.
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