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Importing text files with Python and pyxll

Posted on 02/08/2025 by dougaj4

VBA code to import text files to Excel was presented at Importing text files with VBA – 2 and following posts. We now look at Python code for a user defined function (UDF) for the same task. The code requires Python … Continue reading →

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The error made in 20% of papers on genes …

Posted on 23/09/2016 by dougaj4

… and how to avoid it. According to a recent scientific paper “Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature” (authors: Mark Ziemann, Yotam Eren1, and Assam El-Osta).  The paper says that “approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dates 3: opening and saving csv files without data corruption

Posted on 11/06/2015 by dougaj4

This post makes use of a spreadsheet for reading data from text files, including comma separated value (csv) files.  The latest version includes a routine for saving the imported data in csv format.  It can be downloaded (including full open-source … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 32: Text functions

Posted on 20/10/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s daily download covers functions to import data from text files into Excel quickly and efficiently, a function to combine text strings, with improved functionality over the built-in Concatenate function, and functions to extract numbers from the beginning or end … Continue reading →

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Importing tab delimited files and clearing large ranges

Posted on 01/03/2009 by dougaj4

Wray Sisk commented on Importing text files with VBA – 3, asking if it could be modified to read tab delimited files. It could be, and has been; download here: Text-in2.ZIP It turned out to be a simple task; just … Continue reading →

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