Excel reading problem with column having multiple datatypes

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Hi All,

I am reading excel sheet using c#. There is column which takes alpha-numeric values.

when i tried following values:

1A5902, ABC123, TEST5

its working fine but when i added new entry as 59595 (any numeric value)
this value become null while reading this excel file in c#.

I have tried same with formatting excel column to text format.
but result is same.

I will be thankful for any solution !!!

Posted 23-Mar-12 19:58pm

Ashish Bhujbal

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Clifford Nelson · Answer 1 · 2012-03-23T23:00:00

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I would try to read the value into an object, and then do a ToString(). It is probably a problem that the type is not what you think it is.

Posted 23-Mar-12 23:00pm

Clifford Nelson

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Ashish Bhujbal 24-Mar-12 5:23am

I am querying excel which returns a datatable. (as we do in sql)
in that data table, mentioned numeric field is coming as empty string(i.e NULL)

so even if i do ToString to this,

this will be empty string only.

Er. Gayatri 28-Sep-12 4:50am

Did you get any solution then ?

I am also facing the same problem.

Devang Vaja 28-Sep-12 5:36am

Gaytri ji convert excel to csv Format than try it will Work any way