Tag Archives: Number formats

Importing Text Files; Unix Format

Posted on 10/11/2015 by dougaj4

Text files generated on Unix systems have a different convention to denote the ends of lines to that used on Dos/Windows systems (see Newline for more details).  This was causing problems with the Text-in2 spreadsheet, with small files being imported with … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dates 2: Getting cell data type and format code

Posted on 08/06/2015 by dougaj4

When working with imported data, or data from an opened csv file, it is often important to know the data type that has been used to store the data.  This may not be obvious, for instance in the previous post we … Continue reading →

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