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That makes some sense. But what about
some other format that might not be so
forgiving? Again, just a thought. Maybe
open with Notepad ++.








From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/08/2017 04:33 PM
Subject: Re: Reading excel via ILE RPG
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:10 PM, <broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just to eliminating what might be, you could save the excel to a csv
file
and see
if it does the same thing. Just a thought.

The problem with this is that Excel tries to preserve formatting when
it saves to CSV, to the point where the underlying, stored value
within Excel is not necessarily what is going to be saved to the CSV.
For example, if you have an Excel cell whose true value is 7, but
formatted as a percentage, so that it looks like "700%", then what
will get saved to the CSV file is actually "700%". This is not good
for diagnostics.

John Y.

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