Brilliant,
changing
spreadsheetdata[:accountnumber] = row.cells(4,57)['value'] to
spreadsheetdata[:accountnumber] = row.cells(4,57)['text']
sorted me out, so what is the difference between the two ?
thanks for the solution
On 5/10/07, Paul Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
your code doesnt show where you create spreadsheetdate but if you use
either the text or attribute ( i cant remember which, and dont have excel
here )
myval = worksheet.range('a2')['value'] # or ['text']
one of these will do the right thing
Paul
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*From:* Tunde Jinadu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* Wtr-general@rubyforge.org
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:01 PM
*Subject:* [Wtr-general] Watir Data types exported from excel
I'm running a script to read data from a spreadsheet using the following
script
# open the spreadsheet and get the values
excel = WIN32OLE::new('excel.Application') # define the type of
application to connect too
workbook = excel.Workbooks.Open('d:\Smoke_Test2.xls') # spreadsheet
location
worksheet = workbook.Worksheets(1) #get hold of the second worksheet
worksheet.Select #bring it to the front -need sometimes to run
macros, not for working with a worksheet from ruby
range=worksheet.range("a1", "bw50") # range of spreadsheet
#~ excel['Visible'] = false #make visible, set to false to make
invisible again. Don't need it to be visible for script to work
the value I am picking out of the spreadsheet is a number
11111111
using the following
ie.text_field
(:id,/AccountNumber/).set(spreadsheetdata[:'accountnumber'].to_i)
when the script enters data into the field it attempts to enter data as
follows 11111111.0 (decimal place materialises.)
I think ruby changes the format of the number 1111111 extracted from the
spreadsheet from an integer as specified using .to_i to another format
(hence the decimal place being displayed in the form field) How can I ensure
the format of the data extracted from excel stays as an integer or text,
allowing a leading zero as '01111111' or '11111111'
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