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Importing downloads into Excel
We typically take a mainframe download (a txt file) and import it into Excel
for the purpose of doing some data comparisons (using Exact for example) and doing some calculations with If functions. Lately, I noticed that on some of the numerical fields, the last digit of numeric data is sometimes changed to a letter (a, c, h, etc.). Not always. I cant seem to discern a pattern to this, YET. Is there someway to get Excel to correctly interpret this for me? Thanks Marsh |
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Importing downloads into Excel
I'd open that .txt file in notepad and verify that the data is coming from the
Mainframe correctly. Maybe it's not excel. Marsh wrote: We typically take a mainframe download (a txt file) and import it into Excel for the purpose of doing some data comparisons (using Exact for example) and doing some calculations with If functions. Lately, I noticed that on some of the numerical fields, the last digit of numeric data is sometimes changed to a letter (a, c, h, etc.). Not always. I cant seem to discern a pattern to this, YET. Is there someway to get Excel to correctly interpret this for me? Thanks Marsh -- Dave Peterson |
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Importing downloads into Excel
Thank you very much for your help.
The download is correct, but you made me think and inquire more than I had. I got a table of the numbers that the letters represent (I created a lookup table), parse them with the right function, and replace the number returned with VLOOKUP using Substitute. Most complex formula I have done, with no help, but you got me thinking. Thanks Dave!!! "Dave Peterson" wrote: I'd open that .txt file in notepad and verify that the data is coming from the Mainframe correctly. Maybe it's not excel. Marsh wrote: We typically take a mainframe download (a txt file) and import it into Excel for the purpose of doing some data comparisons (using Exact for example) and doing some calculations with If functions. Lately, I noticed that on some of the numerical fields, the last digit of numeric data is sometimes changed to a letter (a, c, h, etc.). Not always. I cant seem to discern a pattern to this, YET. Is there someway to get Excel to correctly interpret this for me? Thanks Marsh -- Dave Peterson |
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