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shankar_r
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10 years ago
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DDT driver not reading Excel cell values with Carriage Return character?

DDT driver not reading Excel cell values with Carriage Return character.   Or is there any way to get the cell values with the Carriage Return character.   If i get any quick answer that would be...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    10 years ago

    I was right... in the Excel cell, what is separating the lines is not a CR but an LF only... so, in other words, your code should be

     

    aqString.ListSeparator = "\n"
aqString.GetListItem(mycellvalue,0);

    This worked for me... see if it works for you.

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shankar_r
Community Hero
10 years ago

You are right, I got the value.

 

If  i want to split the value by carriage return(New Line) how can i do that?

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shankar_r
Community Hero
10 years ago

Using Javascript i tire the below options,

 

1)

mycellvalue.split("\r\n")

 

2)

var testRE = RegExp("\r\n");

mycellvalue.split(testR)

 

3)

mycellvalue.split(chr(13);

 

nothing is working for me..

 

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    10 years ago

    I haven't tried it myself, but have you looked into the aqString.Split() method? That is not using native JavaScript but an internal function of TestComplete so it MIGHT work differently.

    • shankar_r's avatar
      shankar_r
      Community Hero
      10 years ago

      I guess instead of aqString.Split() we should use aqString.GetListItem() after setting up the aqString.ListSeparator.

       

      I have tried that too.

       

      aqString.ListSeparator = "\r\n"
      aqString.GetListItem(mycellvalue,0);

      aqString.ListSeparator = chr(13)
      aqString.GetListItem(mycellvalue,0);

       

      but no luck.

      • Colin_McCrae's avatar
        Colin_McCrae
        Community Hero
        10 years ago

        Does "Replace" work?

         

        It's what I tend to use to remove line feeds & carriage returns. (My use case is slightly different to yours, I want rid of them!)

         

        I'm not a JavaScript guy, but it has that method apparently?

         

        http://www.w3schools.com/Jsref/jsref_replace.asp

         

        So if you did:

         

        <YOUR-STRING> = <YOUR-STRING>.Replace(chr(10), "");

        <YOUR-STRING> = <YOUR-STRING>.Replace(chr(13), "");

         

        ... are you left with one big long line of all the text from the cell?

         

        I "replace" out these characters all the time (in VBScript & C# Script) no problem.