I've changed my locale in Google Sheets (Settings > Locale) to use the Italian format, with the comma as decimal separator, and dot as thousands separator (thus 1.173,00 means one-thousand-one-hundred-seventy-three).
I'm trying to figure out how to paste correctly in a cell a number which comes from the origin as "1.173" and Google Sheets is interpreting that as 3.53.00
Why?
Everything works fine if I include the decimals (pasting "1.173,00") but the source does not includes them, therefore I'm stuck with this problem.
Thank you
Google Sheets is automatically interpreting 1.173 as a duration rather than a number. It reads it as 1 hour and 173 minutes, and automatically corrects it to 3 hours and 53 minutes instead.
Based on my own experimentation, it doesn't seem like there's a fix for this: regardless of what number format is applied to a cell or range before inputting 1.173, Sheets still treats it as a duration. Formatting as plain text allows the cell to display 1.173, but trying to convert that text to a number for use in any sort of calculation (through the use of =VALUE, for example) seems to have issues.
I have the following extract of code. My aim is to extract the value 7.4e-07 after the symbol DAN. My usual go-to formula (using MID & FIND formula's) for this can't work because DAN is surrounded by ", and therefore confuses the formula.
{"data":{"log":{"address":[{"balances":[{"currency":{"address":"example1","symbol":"ROB"},"value":0.0},{"currency":{"address":"example2","symbol":"DAN"},"value":7.4e-07},{"currency":{"address":"example3","symbol":"COLIN"},"value":0.0},{"currency":{"address":"example4","symbol":"BOB"},"value":0.0},{"currency":{"address":"example5","symbol":"PAUL"},"value":13426.64}}}
I will always need to find the number shown in the 'value' after DAN. However, all other data surrounding will change so cannot be used in the search formula.
Any help would be appreciated.
The extract the digit you want, it can be achieved by using regex, split, index, here is the formula, accept if help :)
=index(split(REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"\""DAN\""},\""value\"":[\d.a-zA-Z-]+"),":"),0,2)
This is the regex I used to extract the value including the beginning text
"DAN"},"value":[\d.a-zA-Z-]+
This is outcome from the regex,
You could try an arrayformula to work down the sheet, extracting all values after 'DAN':
=arrayformula(regexreplace(A1:A,".*(DAN...........)([\w\.\-]*)(\}.*)","$2"))
New to APIs in Google sheets, but I feel like I'm 95% of the way to where I'm trying to go.
I'm trying to pull crypto data into my spreadsheet to do a simple 24 hour price comparison and gauge whether the price has gone up or down, maybe use some conditional code to change the background to green or red. Simple enough. Most of the sites that offer APIs have given me various errors, though, so coinbase pro (and weirdly the deprecated gdax) have been most reliable (although I haven't ruled out that it started breaking because I'm now putting in too many call requests).
Found this as a way to get the current price of ETH, for instance:
=VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.gdax.com/products/ETH-USD/ticker"),0,2), "price:",""), """", ""))
Works like a charm. So I changed the request to target different info, specifically the 24hr stats listed on the API doc, and the first value in that section, "open" for opening price (this ensures I get the price exactly 24hrs earlier). But I got a weird parsing error using the request, which is here:
=VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,1), "open:",""), """", ""))
I've figured out the issue, but not the solution. Google Sheets says I am pulling in text. Because the "open" (opening price) value is the first listed in the JSON code, it is pulling in the code bracket from the nested HTML/JSON code. For instance, it says I can't parse "{open" into a number. And I get the same problem in reverse when I pull the last value listed in the stats section, which is "volume_30day:"
=VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,6), "volume_30day:",""), """", ""))
This returns an error saying "volume_30day: #}" can't be parsed, so now it is the closing bracket of the JSON code. So I can't use "open" the first item in the API 24hr stats section, or Volume_30day, which is the sixth item on that list, but items 2-5 work just fine. Seems super weird to me, but I've tested it and it is seems to be what's going on.
There must be something stupid I need to tweak here, but I don't know what it is.
Answer 1:
About =VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,1), "open:",""), """", ""))
When I checked =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,1), "open:",""), """", ""), the value is {open:617. I think that when by this, when VALUE is used for the value, the error occurs.
In order to retrieve the values you expect, I would like to propose to use REGEXREPLACE instead of SUBSTITUTE. The modified formula is as follows.
=VALUE(REGEXREPLACE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,1), "open|""|{|}|:",""))
In this modified formula, open|""|{|}|: is used as the regex. These are replaced with "".
In this case, I think that =VALUE(REGEXEXTRACT(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,1), "\d+")) can be also used. But when I thought about your 2nd question, I thought that above formula might be useful.
Result:
Answer 2:
About =VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,6), "volume_30day:",""), """", ""))
When I checked =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,6), "volume_30day:",""), """", ""), the value is 7101445.64098932}. I think that when by this, when VALUE is used for the value, the error occurs.
In order to retrieve the values you expect, I would like to propose to use REGEXREPLACE instead of SUBSTITUTE. The modified formula is as follows.
=VALUE(REGEXREPLACE(INDEX(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"),0,6), "volume_30day|""|{|}|:",""))
In this modified formula, volume_30day|""|{|}|: is used as the regex. These are replaced with "".
In this regex, it can use by replacing open of open|""|{|}|: to volume_30day at above regex.
Result:
Other pattern 1:
As other pattern using the built-in formula, how about the following modified formulas?
=VALUE(TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(VALUE(REGEXREPLACE(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"), "open|""|{|}|:","")),""))))
=VALUE(TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(VALUE(REGEXREPLACE(IMPORTDATA("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats"), "volume_30day|""|{|}|:","")),""))))
In these formulas, the values can be retrieved by replacing KEY of KEY|""|{|}|: of the regex.
Other pattern 2:
The returned value from https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats is the JSON value. So in this case, when the custom function created by Google Apps Script can be also used.
The Google Apps Script is as follows.
const SAMPLE = (url, key) => JSON.parse(UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText())[key] || "no value";
When you use this script, please copy and paste the above script to the script editor of Spreadsheet and save it. And please put the custom function like =SAMPLE("https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/ETH-USD/stats","open") and =SAMPLE("https://api.gdax.com/products/ETH-USD/ticker","price") to a cell. By this, the value can be retrieved.
References:
REGEXREPLACE
Custom Functions in Google Sheets
Currently, pasting 112,359,1003 into Google Sheets automatically converts the value to 1123591003.
This prevents me from applying the Split text to columns option as there are no commas left to split by.
Note that my number format is set to the following (rather than being Automatic):
Selecting the Plain text option prevents the commas from being truncated but also prevents me from being able to use the inserted data in formulas.
The workaround for this is undesirable when inserting large amounts of data: select cells that you expect to occupy, set to Plain Text, paste data, set to back to desired number format.
How do I disable the automatic interpretation by Google Spreadsheet of the commas in my pasted numeric values?
You can not paste it in any number format, because of the nature of numerical format types. It will parse it into an actual number and physically store it in this format. Using plaintext type, like you are, is the way to go for this.
However, there are some options to perform these tasks in a slightly different way;
- you might be able to use CSV-import functionality, which prevents having to change types for a sheet.
- you can use int() function to parse the plaintext value into an int. (and combine this with lookup functions).
TEXT formatting:
Use ' to prepend the number. It'll be stored as text regardless of actual formatting.
Select the column and set formatting as `plain text.
In both the above cases, You can multiply the resulting text by 1 *1 to use in any formula as a number.
NUMBER formatting:
Keep Number formatting with ,/Automatic.
Here, though split text to columns might not work, You can use TEXT() or TO_TEXT()
=ARRAYFORMULA(SPLIT(TO_TEXT(A1:A5),","))
I've got a lot of "duration" values - basically a race duration - in a format m:ss.millis [4:03.810 for example].
Currently GS handles it as text, but I would like to use those values for comparison and create some statistics.
Is this possible? I have read this: How to format a duration as HH:mm in the new Google sheets but even though I have created a custom formats like:
or
but neither with one nor with another I cannot use those values for calculations. GS always complains about the values beeing stored as text.
I guess I'm just doing something wrong, but I definitely need to be able to provide values in this format and be able to use them in calculations.
How can I do that?
I regret that Duration seems to be a useless abomination and Sheets appears to offer no relatively easy way to convert text representation to values. Pending a better answer I suggest you convert all your durations as below:
=(left(A1,find(":",A1)-1)+right(A1,6)/60)/1440
format as Number:
mm:ss.000
and then apply your formulae.
(Change , to ; if required by your locale.)
A shorter formula might be used to cajole TIMEVALUE to work by including an hour value of 0:
=TIMEVALUE("00:"&A1)
A happy coincidence brought me back here because only very recently have I found that Google Sheets does offer a way to convert Text to Number (or I was having another aberration when I claimed otherwise). However, this still seems not to apply to Duration. Maybe there is yet hope though.