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endorium's avatar
endorium
Frequent Contributor
6 years ago

Retrieving specific value from excel

I have a function where I am trying to get the last value from the data in column 'A' in an excel spreadsheet. Still fairly new to this. Below it was i have but I cannot get it to work. I know It w...
  • shankar_r's avatar
    shankar_r
    6 years ago

    Below code will retrieve you the last row 's column A value.

     

     

    function testas() {
    var strFileName = "D:\\Users\\sramasamy\\Desktop\\mass.xlsx";
    var sName = "Version";

    exObj = Sys.OleObject("Excel.Application");
    if (exObj == null) return;
    try {
        exObj.Workbooks.Open(strFileName);
        var sheetObj = exObj.Sheets(sName);
        var rCount = sheetObj.UsedRange.Rows.Count;
        Log.Message(sheetObj.Range("A" + rCount));
    } catch (ex) {
        Log.Error(ex.stack);
    } finally {
        if (exObj != null) exObj.Quit();
    }
}

     

     

shankar_r's avatar
shankar_r
Community Hero

Below code will retrieve you the last row 's column A value.

 

 

function testas() {
    var strFileName = "D:\\Users\\sramasamy\\Desktop\\mass.xlsx";
    var sName = "Version";

    exObj = Sys.OleObject("Excel.Application");
    if (exObj == null) return;
    try {
        exObj.Workbooks.Open(strFileName);
        var sheetObj = exObj.Sheets(sName);
        var rCount = sheetObj.UsedRange.Rows.Count;
        Log.Message(sheetObj.Range("A" + rCount));
    } catch (ex) {
        Log.Error(ex.stack);
    } finally {
        if (exObj != null) exObj.Quit();
    }
}

 

 

TanyaYatskovska's avatar
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
6 years ago

Shankar, Rudolf, thanks for your suggestions!

 

endorium, did you find the answer to your question?