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How NOT to get the date
Hello,
We need to import a large number of spreadsheets with suspect data. Some very involved database structures have been developed to translate the received data. Dates represent a large part of this questionable data. The process assumes dates are poorly formed and the poorly formed string is ultimately used as a lookup value. The problem is, when these spreadsheets are read in via OleDB, the String "Sep-05" returns as 9/1/2005. Now I understand that for many (if not most) applications, this translation is desired, but in this case the desired value to be retrieved from the cell is, exactly, "Sep-05". Nothing we have tried so far suppresses this 'help' from Excel. Is there a way to get the actual value and not the one Excel thinks we want? |
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