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DIC.Number_to_Letter

Convert Description of delimited Field to numbers.

 

 

Intention

 

Assume you have a XCoordinate from A Spreadsheet like this: "AA".

  Now you want to convert it to its numeric representation which in this case would be 27.

 

 

VAR.$$LIN=285

 

' Now we call the command

DIC.l2n|$$LIN|$$RES

 

' And Debug-Print the Result JY

DBP.$$RES

 

ENR.

 

 

 

 

Syntax

 

DIC.n2l|P1[|P2]

DIC.Number_to_Letter|P1[|P2]

 

 

Parameter Explanation

 

P1 - Field Index can be a number like 1,2,33

P2 - (optional) Variable for Result. If omitted result is placed on TOS.

 

 

 

Example

 

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Remarks

This Command does not need Excel to be installed on the System..

 

Limitations:

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See also:

 

•1.5.2 Working with Text-Strings

•VAR. - Variable Set Value/Clear

•IVS. / NVS. - If-Variable-String

•GSS. - GetSplitString

•SRT. - Sort Items

•! STR. - String Command

•GES. - Get-Extracted-String

•SBD. - String between Delimiter

•SBM. - String between Delimiter-Multiple

•FEM. - For Each Member

•LEN. - Length-of-String

•DIC.-Delimited Item Commands

•DIC.Eval_Column_List

•DIC.Format_Numeric

•DIC.Get_Field_Index

•DIC.Get_Fields

•DIC.Get_in_Order

•DIC.Insert

•DIC.Letter_to_Number

•DIC.Remove

•DIC.Set_Multiple

•DIC.Set_Value

•DIC.Swap