_Excel_RangeFind '$iLookIn' Parameter - examples

[l3ill]

Cheers,

Hit a snag automating some excel stuff and I think this parameter could be what I need. Unfortunately cant find any examples/instructions on how to use it.

A shove in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. 

$iLookIn    [optional] Specifies where to search. Can be any of the XLFindLookIn enumeration (default = $xlValues)

Bill

[Jfish]

If you look at the Excel Constants it says:

Quote

; XlFindLookIn Enumeration. Specifies the type of data to search.
; See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff822180(v=office.14).aspx
Global Const $xlComments = -4144 ; Comments
Global Const $xlFormulas = -4123 ; Formulas
Global Const $xlValues = -4163 ; Values

Edit: what are you looking for?  Maybe some more info on the problem?

Edited November 7, 2016 by Jfish

[l3ill]

Thanks Jfish!

That does make sense now. Not what I was hoping it would be though.

Cheers,

Bill

[water]

But what are you then looking for?

[l3ill]

I was hoping for a parameter that would limit the search range,  for instance as a variable given from a previously found range.

I have a large excel sheet (made from a  PDF) with financial statements with information that will always be in a different row.

I need to search for a Facility and in that facility search for several different titles; sales, dop, income, depreciation...  and then grab cell info (numbers).

So basically limit the search range for the titles to whatever area of the worksheet  "name your Facility" is filling. The 'facility area' was the variable I was hoping to pass on to the range_find as a variable to search for those titles in each facility , one facility at a time.

Hope that makes sense...

Thanks for your interest  

 

 

[water]

Can you please post an (anonymized) sample of your data? Maybe setting a filter is all you need?

[l3ill]

That would be a lot of anonymizing

See PM ( you will see what I mean )

I can post a reproducer once (if) I (we)  get it figured out.

[l3ill]

Just an FYI,

I ended up finding a way to get this done:

I had to set it up to find the first occurrence (there are 3) of the name of the first fac. and the first occurrence of the second fac. (-1)

Which gives me the chunk I was needing to pass on as a search criteria for the next section of code.

Spoiler

#Region  ; separates the facities in chunks for next step ($sFacRange) = A102:M196)=====working !!!

For $i = 0 To 10 ; loop through facilties
    ConsoleWrite("$aFacName[$i] = " & $aFacName[$i] & @CRLF)
;~  ConsoleWrite("$i) = " & $i & @CRLF)
    Local $aFacRange_First = _Excel_RangeFind($srcWorkbook, $aFacName[$i]) ; Find all cases of Fac (usually 3 for 3 pages)
    If $i <= 9 Then
    Local $aFacRange_Second = _Excel_RangeFind($srcWorkbook, $aFacName[$i + 1])
    Else
    ExitLoop
    EndIf

    Local $sInt01 = StringTrimLeft($aFacRange_First[0][2], 3) ;removes leading $A$ - leaving just number
    Local $aFacRange_First = "A" & $sInt01
    Local $sInt02 = StringTrimLeft($aFacRange_Second[0][2], 3) ;removes leading $A$ - leaving just number
    Local $sInt_02 = $sInt02 - 1
    Local $aFacRange_Second = "M" & $sInt_02
    Local $sFacRange = $aFacRange_First & ":" & $aFacRange_Second
    ConsoleWrite("$sFacRange) = " & $sFacRange & @CRLF)
#EndRegion ; separates the facities in chunks for next step ($sFacRange) = A102:M196)===working !!!

Next ; is further down in the code,  added for testing obviously wouldnt work w/out this ;-)

 

Excel file: imagine a large financial statement with 10 fac. each fac. has 3 sections.

every month they are in different cells with empty cells added randomly. (tons of empty or useless information cells)

 

Thanks again 

Bill

 

Edit: An example of the console output:

Spoiler

$aFacName[$i] = Fac. 01
$i) = 0
$sFacRange) = A102:M196
$aFacName[$i] = Fac. 02
$i) = 1
$sFacRange) = A197:M287
$aFacName[$i] = Fac. 03
$i) = 2
$sFacRange) = A288:M370

 

 

Edited November 11, 2016 by l3ill