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Hi all, I have VFP application which is allowed to user to import records from an Excel file. The problem is if there are hidden unicode characters in Excel file they all getting imported to VFP database. Suppose in my table there should not have duplicate records. But in the source excel file there are two records one have only english characters and other has same english characters and some unicode characters. So if I see the excel file both records are looks like same. Unicode characters are hidden.

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If i import them they also seems like duplicated. But not actually duplicated. So how should I display hidden characters in Excel file? And how I remove these hidden values while importing? And another thing is, the source excel file is.xlsx type.

I save it to 2003 format(xls). Still I cant see these characters in the excel file.

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But when I imported to VFP I can see some of these unicode characters in the databse. Do anybody have an idea on this? Unicode capabilities of excel go back to really old versions, so conversion of the excel format won't get rid of unicode. Show your import code, that would give more detailed info than just describing the phenomenon.

I already mentioned there are many chars resulting in white space, in ANSI, and even more so in Unicode. Another font will also not show it, if it's whitespace. In the end only a concrete excel sample file with such chars would help.

To read it in 1:1 you'd need to make use of SYS(3101) or SYS(987), the clipboard won't copy it over to VFP and APPEND FROM xls even less so. The clipboard is also capable to copy unicode, but not for VFP, if you copy a cell value to notepad and save as Unicode or UTF-8, then load the txt file into a hex editor, you can see what unicode chars are in there. You just have to disregard the first three bytes of the txt file, which are a byte order mark (BOM) specifying the encoding of the txt file for notepad. The rest is what came from the Excel cell. Of course you could also load the xlsx file in a hex editor, but it would be harder to find a certain cell value in all that binary file, the more so, as xlsx is a zipped archive, you'll not even find normal text in it. Olaf Doschke (Setmics). This is one excelent solution I am using when getting data from xls,xlsx.

You just pick the Excel file you need to import in dbf even it is with unicode charachters. Yuri Rubinov is the author. This is code sample of Yuri Rubinov. Imports xls, xlsx Excel file into cursor kodi.

You may copy the cursor to dbf then. Close tables all SET DEFAULT TO JUSTPATH(SYS(16,1)) kup=GETFILE('XLSx','For Salary Payslip','Open Pay-File',0,'Please Select The Salary File From Your Hard Drive') vrb1=ALLTRIM(kup) do aArrayFromExcel with vrb1,'rubinov' LOCAL ncolm as Integer ncolm=ALEN(rubinov,2) Local Array aStrucm.ncolm,4 FOR ix = 1 TO ncolm aStrucm.ix,1 = 'A'+LTRIM(STR(m.ix)) aStrucm.ix,2 = 'C' IF ix#3 OR ix#16 aStrucm.ix,3 = 12 ELSE aStrucm.ix,3 = 50 ENDIF aStrucm.ix,4 = '00' ENDFOR SET DECIMALS TO 2 Create Cursor kodi From Array aStruc SELECT kodi APPEND BLANK. do anything you need with kodi cursor. Here I am resizing the fields t. to match the actual size of Excel fields ALTER table kodi alter column a2 c(10) ALTER table kodi alter column a3 c(250) ALTER table kodi alter column a4 c(15) INSERT INTO kodi FROM ARRAY rubinov BROWSE TITLE 'kodi rubinov'.

when ok:. copy cursor kodi to some csv COPY TO kodicsv TYPE DELIMITED WITH TAB.COPY TO NASLOVI111 TYPE DELIMITED WITH CHARACTER '.' COPY TO kodidbf.DBF CANCEL PROCEDURE aArrayFromExcel LPARAMETERS pcSrcFile, pcArrayName IF TYPE('pcArrayName')#'C' RETURN.f. ENDIF LOCAL lccom,cmn,mccom,rmn oExcel=Createobject('EXCEL.Application') oExcel.DisplayAlerts =.F. OExcel.Workbooks.OPen(pcSrcFile) IF TYPE('ALEN('+pcArrayName+')')#'N' PUBLIC ARRAY &pcArrayName1 ENDIF IF EVALUATE('ALEN('+pcArrayName+')') # oExcel.activesheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count DIMENSION &pcArrayName 1, oExcel.activesheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count ENDIF cmn=oExcel.activesheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count rmn=oExcel.activesheet.UsedRange.rows.count SET DECIMALS TO 2 lccom=pcArrayName+'=oExcel.ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.range(oExcel.ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Cells(4,1), oExcel.ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Cells(rmn,cmn )).value' &lccom oExcel.quit oExcel=null RETURN. These characters are unable to see in the excel file. And after I import into VFP data they still dont visible.

So you talk about space or whitespace characters. Even in ANSI there are a few, space chr(32), tab chr(9), shift+space chr(160).

But it doesn't matter much, in general the same applies, Unicode doesn't translate 1:1 to ANSI. But I copied one character and check the chr value, it get some numbers (159 etc) they are not the space character. You think you get the correct binary value from copying a unicode value?

VFP also only reads the ANSI clipboard, it also converts the original value and you don't see the original. Chr(159) converts back to 0h7801 in Unicode via STRCONV(chr(159),5), which displayed by VFP shows as x, because chr(1) and many many other chr chracters also don't display. You see, this is just another example the conversion to ANSI is losing information, even just on the one way from Unicode to ANSI. You can't display unicode in VFP, you have to decide for the best matchcodepage and live with the loss, or you decide to read the unicode data binary, 1:1 without any conversion, but still won't be able to display it inside VFP.

VFP can only display ANSI. You can't display unicode in VFP, you have to decide for the best matchcodepage and live with the loss, or you decide to read the unicode data binary, 1:1 without any conversion, but still won't be able to display it inside VFP. VFP can only display ANSI. I don't agree. VFP alone cannot display Unicode BUT you may use a few form OLE controls which allow to display Unicode. The most often used one is MS Rich Textbox control.

MS Forms 2.0 controls should also allow to display Unicode. If I remember it well Naomi published it on Universaltrhread. Hi all, In the bottom of line there may be unicode characters in the excel file. I cant see them. May be because of the font does not support it. So I think the proper way to fix in the Excel file. How would I romove these additional characters from the excel?

Is there any function or something like that? Apart from that our client is already imported these records in to there system. Any how they can see duplicate records as other characters are not displaying. So anyhow I have to remove these characters and delete duplicate records in VFP side. Is there any way to remove these using VFP? And another thing is, the source excel file is.xlsx type.

I save it to 2003 format(xls). Still I cant see these characters in the excel file. But when I imported to VFP I can see some of these unicode characters in the databse. Do anybody have an idea on this? I don't agree. Pavel, I talk about native VFP, I already mentioned Unicode ActiveX Controls as a solution, quote ' If you only need to retrieve data to export it later, there is no problem, but if you need to display it in your application, you need unicode capable ActiveX controls, VFP itself is not unicode ready.'

And I also already mentioned ways to have a lossless conversion of Unicode via SYS(3101) and SYS(987) is another valuable setting using an OLEDB Provider to read data from excel, if not automating it. Still the problem is much easier solvable, if you can convert to some ANSI code page having all the needed characters. As this mainly is about whitespace, there is no problem finding a corresponding char. A solution would be to translate it all to chr(32).

Olaf Doschke (Setmics). And another thing is, the source excel file is.xlsx type. I save it to 2003 format(xls). Still I cant see these characters in the excel file.

Show your import code, that would give more detailed info than just describing the phenomenon. I already mentioned there are many chars resulting in white space, in ANSI, and even more so in Unicode. Another font will also not show it, if it's whitespace. In the end only a concrete excel sample file with such chars would help. To read it in 1:1 you'd need to make use of SYS(3101) or SYS(987), the clipboard won't copy it over to VFP and APPEND FROM xls even less so. The clipboard is also capable to copy unicode, but not for VFP, if you copy a cell value to notepad and save as Unicode or UTF-8, then load the txt file into a hex editor, you can see what unicode chars are in there. You just have to disregard the first three bytes of the txt file, which are a byte order mark (BOM) specifying the encoding of the txt file for notepad.

The rest is what came from the Excel cell. Of course you could also load the xlsx file in a hex editor, but it would be harder to find a certain cell value in all that binary file, the more so, as xlsx is a zipped archive, you'll not even find normal text in it. Olaf Doschke (Setmics). This is one excelent solution I am using when getting data from xls,xlsx. You just pick the Excel file you need to import in dbf even it is with unicode charachters. Yuri Rubinov is the author.

This is code sample of Yuri Rubinov. Imports xls, xlsx Excel file into cursor kodi. You may copy the cursor to dbf then. Close tables all SET DEFAULT TO JUSTPATH(SYS(16,1)) kup=GETFILE('XLSx','For Salary Payslip','Open Pay-File',0,'Please Select The Salary File From Your Hard Drive') vrb1=ALLTRIM(kup) do aArrayFromExcel with vrb1,'rubinov' LOCAL ncolm as Integer ncolm=ALEN(rubinov,2) Local Array aStrucm.ncolm,4 FOR ix = 1 TO ncolm aStrucm.ix,1 = 'A'+LTRIM(STR(m.ix)) aStrucm.ix,2 = 'C' IF ix#3 OR ix#16 aStrucm.ix,3 = 12 ELSE aStrucm.ix,3 = 50 ENDIF aStrucm.ix,4 = '00' ENDFOR SET DECIMALS TO 2 Create Cursor kodi From Array aStruc SELECT kodi APPEND BLANK. do anything you need with kodi cursor. Here I am resizing the fields t. to match the actual size of Excel fields ALTER table kodi alter column a2 c(10) ALTER table kodi alter column a3 c(250) ALTER table kodi alter column a4 c(15) INSERT INTO kodi FROM ARRAY rubinov BROWSE TITLE 'kodi rubinov'.