I had converted .xls file to .csv format. I had done this by opened the Excel and done Save as to csv format. The .xls file has values like '00116','0860371' etc. But once converted to .csv, its not retaining the "0" and the value is like '116','860371' etc.
I had changed the format to "Text" and tried..But its not retaining the "0"
How to Fix this....
when you open the csv file in excel, it trims all the preceding zeros. Better open in other text editors.
I am not able to duplicate this issue.
In Excel 2003, I enter '00116 in cell A1 and '0860371 in cell B1.
I go to the Save As dialog and choose "CSV" for the type. When I click "Save" it asks me to confirm. I click Yes. I close Excel and click No when it asks if I want to save changes to the CSV file.
I browse to the saved CSV, right click and choose Edit (to open the file in Notepad). The file contents are:
00116,0860371
In order to open this file in Excel without losing the leading zeroes, I:
Start Excel again and go to Data » Import External Data » Import Data.
Browse to the file and click Open.
In step 1 of the import dialog, choose "Delimited" and click Next.
In step 2, select "Comma" as the delimiter and click Next.
In step 3, I set both columns to Text and click Finish.
Click OK and both values are imported, with leading zeroes intact. The leading apostrophes are dropped.
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I have an application which saves CSV files. When I import in Libre Office 5 and save again as CSV, the resulting file will not contain a field separator at the end of the last field.
I could use an awk script but is too hard to use for other users.
Is there any setting in libre office which will allow me to import and save the file successfully?
The format of the CSV-file that you described corresponds to a table with an empty column with an "invisible heading", usually a space.
Therefore, the easiest and fastest way to do what you want is to add a space in the table header after the last column before exporting.
I saved a TSV file (it has to be TSV because reasons... I guess it could be .xlsx too), on my drive and I want to import it using =importdata("https://drive.google.com/open?id=<myfileID>")
This... almost works, but it seems to want to give each character a column (except that my data doesn't even have that characters. The error is:
Error
Result was not automatically expanded, please insert more columns (1096).
My data has 13 columns, and browsing the data in a text editor, has max about 125 characters. So even allocating a character per column it should still be able to show it
I've saved sample TSV and Sheets document, so perhaps you guys can help me out.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ri_FJ-ty9rB408KTzeLUGm8om4JX8q_Mh6x7Eh7bbIQ/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ijERb-QPmeYA_GrcjB3dCckNKU2XiSd8/view?usp=sharing (the tsv file)
Answer:
You need to use the export/download link, rather than the share link.
Modification:
=IMPORTDATA(https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1ijERb-QPmeYA_GrcjB3dCckNKU2XiSd8&export=download)
You can get this link by visiting the share link for your TSV file, and hitting download in the top-right. A new tab will open that contains the URL of the export link.
You can also take the imported data and use the SPLIT function to separate the tabular data using CHAR(9):
=ARRAYFORMULA(SPLIT(IMPORTDATA(A3),CHAR(9),FALSE,TRUE))
Alternatively, you can use the File > Import > [Select File] menu item, then use the Append to current Sheet and Tab separator type to import any TSV file on your Drive to a Sheet.
I have a DSV file and each row corresponds to one instance/piece of text as normal. Specifically, I have my own delimiter ### instead of the default (i.e., comma ,). However, when I open the DSV by using Google Sheets, these tools always display the DSV file by splitting automatically by default delimiter. It causes a mess because some columns may contain several commas.
How can I disable the trigger that splits the text into columns automatically and only use my own delimiter?
My DSV is like below:
a###b###c###d,e,f,g###h,",",j
h###i,j,k###l###m###n,"[o,p]"
q,r###s###c,u###v,w###x,y,'z,'
As suggested, I have tried to copy the content directly to a newly created Google sheet, however, I got the error as below due to the size of the content.
There was a problem
Your input contains more than the maximum of 50000 characters in a single cell.
With File > Import > Upload > Drag one can choose one's delimiter (though not, as far as I am aware, as in Excel the option to "Treat consecutive delimiters as one"):
So, depending upon your specific file, you may find the result this way is what you want - provided you are prepared to delete a couple of blank columns for each set of ### (if not choosing a single character rather than ### in the first place).
if you import your CSV data into Google Sheets via copy-paste you can press this combo right after importing it:
LEFT ALT + D
E
ARROW UP
ARROW UP
ENTER
and type in your ###
I have some data in excel format and it contains Tamil Text as well as English text.
I am trying to convert the excel sheet into .CSV format after converting English text is coming but Tamil text is Storing like ????? Please help me on this.
Try to use Google Spreadsheet instead of Excel.
Also, the spreadsheet application Calc from OpenOffice is very good at handling CSV data. In the "Save As..." dialog you can click on "Format Options" to get different encodings for CSV. In this way you will be able to save your data correctly.
Excel is not the best tool to handle CSV files.
How can I prevent the column headings from appearing in a .txt save file in Hyperion ?
Here is the answer from Oracle/Hyperion:
You are correct that the headers still appear on the export of the section to .xls format. If you are attempting to export the section and do not want the headers present, you will need to export out as one of the Office Archive formats that are provided (Microsoft Office 2000 HTML (.html) or (.mhtml)). There is no option through the GUI to export a file in the Excel (.xls) format and not have the headers present.
On the main menu bar select Format. In the dropdown, there is an option for 'Column Titles’. Selecting the 'Column Titles' option with uncheck it, removing the column titles from the results.
A workaround, assuming you have no duplicate rows, is to create a Pivot section for the Table/Result set, and bring in every column as a Side Label, and turn off all the Top/Side/Corner labels. Export the Pivot section. Works best if you're pulling in a unique identifier for each row.