But it's certainly a lot more work than the coding above. The additional advantage of oledb is that you can also use it to establish a linked server in SQL Server and read from text files just as you would any SQL server table.
Also, I wondered if downloading libreoffice would allow it to work similarly to the kind of code in the main article, but since I already had the oledb provider, I went that route.
I did have to download a provider (.12.0), but it was free.
But consider a situation where you don't have Excell installed and don't care to or don't want to install it. Good post, and the preferable route if you have Excel installed. How do you handle it when the data itself contains commas? Granted, some employees must do this for their company and there are some great tools that automate all of this which a company can pay for without it hitting the employee, such as ASPOSE, which also works with several languages. Since I also provide data to clients, I know that I have to provide the data they want since they're paying for it. Generally, if I'm paying for the data, I refuse Excel data from data providers. A developer must weight the cost whether handling every exception is (a) worth it to his/her company/client, or (b) worth it with his/her time (if this isn't required for a to hear that. Keep in mind that with Excel you can find numerous exceptions - for instance, what happens if an extra quotation mark is thrown in? Or, I've seen some people build an Excel sheet with six or seven tables in one sheet spread across the sheet (not organized).
Can you please let me know how to handle this, in the most simplest manner. I do have commas in the data and is creating problems. This would be similar to my OutputInvalidandValidData method on my C# ReadFiles class here - the difference being that on the else, it would then count the ratio of quotations to delimeters.
What that means is that I'll end up with a ratio of delimiters to quotations at that point, I will determine the ratio and based on the number, replace all commas for values between quotations.
Note that Excel will wrap the data with commas in quotations. I would use StreamReader and StreamWriter to look at the CSV file once it's exported. It depends on the developers some may prefer to go in and replace commas in Excel directly, using a tool like Interlop. It will loop through string columns where commas exist and can have a numeric approach added to it, if that's easier than simply updating the formatting (strings remain unchanged).
One of the approaches is like this GitHub example, which should be used inside of the above function (within the foreach ($ws in $wb.Worksheets) and before the line $n = $excelFileName + "_" + $ws.Name). How do i replace the commas with lets say a forward slash in the cell. Could it be that PS does not have the premission to Modify the file? The name was written correctly in the error message. The Problem: It can't find the file but it's there. Could you or someone else help me if you have the same Problem? Thank you for this explenation, It really helped a lot. I love this code, where would I set the delimeter in this code. Build your fleets, establish connections to distant countries and dominate the other rival empires.Įast India Company – Collection bounds together this trade oriented strategy game and its add-ons.I love this code, where would I set the delimeter in this code. In East India Company, you assume the role of Governor Director and seek to ship precious cargo to Europe in order to amass vast wealth. BUILD THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL TRADING EMPIRE