A long time ago I did this in 'another' tool.

IIRC this is what's involved:
1) Scan the Excel files and determine the sheets, number of columns, their
names and data types
1a) Sheets: leave the sheet name blank in the list, simply set start
column/row to 0/0, include sheet name as an additional column in the output.
1b) Columns: set a few hundred unnamed columns, all strings, read 1 one
row.  The values are the names of the columns
1c) Data types: write to a CSV file and use the "File Metadata" transform
to get the types
2) Inject this information into the Excel Input transform using ETL
Metadata injection which also runs the pipeline.

Best of luck,
Matt



On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 3:12 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> do we have some way to read data from Excel file where number of columns
> is unknown?
> I mean sometimes file can be like:
>
> column_1; column_2
>
> but other time
> column_1; column_2; column_3; column_3
>
> Normally we need to define them in 'Fields' tab - possible not to do that
> in a fixed way?
>
> Regards
>
>
>

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