Hi,

try js.getB, i.e. line 3 should be:
ec = js.get*b*("a", x)

Cheers---Christoph

NB: I started calling J from within XLS seriously about a year ago or
so---and it works exceptionally well. (It has some flaws which are because
of OLE in the first place.

2010/4/15 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>

> Have you looked at replacing Excel with Grids?
>
> 2010/4/14, Bartsch, Martin <[email protected]>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I´m going to use the J OLE Server for Excel in one project.
> > This seems to me a great solution where everyone wants to use excel and I
> > want to develop the software in my language of choice J.
> >
> > So far I have one issue with getting strings out of J into Excel-VBA.
> > The following example gives two different values for x ("?????") and a
> > ("hello world").
> >
> > 1 Sub jserver_issue()
> > 2   ec = js.do("a=.'hello world'")
> > 3   ec = js.get("a", x)
> > 4   MsgBox x
> > 5   ec = js.do("wdinfo a")
> > 6 End Sub
> >
> > Is this a normal / expected behaviour ?
> > Has anyone found the same issue or am I doing something wrong ?
> >
> > Thanks for help,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
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