find the row number of excel sheets with two particular column values

[DJ143]

I have a sheet it has 5 columns and more than 1000 rows. I have to identify a row by its 1st and 5th column and get the values of 2,3 and 4 column values in that particular row. I have used For loop but this is taking more time for identifying the row. Please help in resolving this problem.

[JLogan3o13]

You have very nicely defined what you want, however you have not shown what you have tried to accomplish on your own. Please start with looking at the Excel functions in the help file. There are a couple of ways you could tackle the problem. For the simplest, try something like this:

   Look at _Excel_Open() and _Excel_BookOpen() to open the workbook in question. 

   Look at _Excel_RangeRead, read the range into an array and then parse through the array looking for your values.

 I'll leave you to tweak this to your needs...

;psuedo

_excel_open
_excel_bookopen(<path to book>)
$aRange = _excel_rangeread(workbook, worksheet, range)
    For $i = 0 to ubound($arange) - 1
        If $arange column 1 = x and $arange column 5 = y Then
           return $arange columns 2, 3 and 4
        EndIf
    Next

 

[DJ143]

hi.. that was very helpful.. with arrays it could find in less time than before. performance got increase. thank you.

[JLogan3o13]

Glad to be of assistance.