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Excel returns blank values using ADO/VB
Hi guys,
I have a big spreadsheet and I have written some VB code that reads the spreadsheet using ADO. The range that I am reading, has numeric values. The cells in the first row have Numeric Format and the rest of the cells in the second row onwards, have a Custom Format of '[=0]"";0' which means 'if the value is 0, then just return blank string ("") else return the value with a precision of one decimal place'. The ADO/VB returns the correct values for the first row but for some of the rest of the rows, esp. for the second row, it returns Blank string (Not Null, though) even if there is some value in the cell. One more thing, if I change the Format of the cells with Custom format to Numeric/General format, the ADO returns correct results. I am aware of a bug in the ADO that Excel returns Null values when there is data type mismatch, but I had faced that issue in the same spreadsheet but in a different range. And I have already fixed that issue using the workaround suggested by Microsoft, using "IMEX=1". That range is fixed. I do not think it is the same issue as ADO does not return Null values but a blank string. Also, if I use ODBC-Excel driver instead of ADO, then it does return me correct results but the problem with that is there is known bug, without a workaround to date, with ODBC that it always assumes that the first row has column headers and hence ignores the first row. Microsoft suggests to use ADO instead of ODBC if first row does not contain headers. Also, I'll need to make a lot of changes and test it, to switch to ODBC instead of ADO as I have been using ADO for long time. Now, I am wondering if there is anything that I could do without making any changes to the spreadsheet so that ADO returns me the correct values. Guys, I would really appreciate your help. Cheers Manish |
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