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Katti

Norway
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Posted - 09/19/2018 :  10:39:12 AM  Show Profile  Edit Topic  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Topic
Hi,

I'd like to get the column index of a column with a specified long name or short name. I.e. I want to search a sheet for the column what has long name "capacity" and return "E" or "5" if the long name of column E is "capacity". Any input on Labtalk commands that will let me do this?

Hideo Fujii

USA
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Posted - 09/19/2018 :  12:10:41 PM  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Hi Katti,

How about like this?
token(nameof([Book1]!col("capacity"))$,2,'_')$=;
--Hideo Fujii
Edited by - Hideo Fujii on 09/19/2018 12:12:43 PM
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Katti

Norway
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Posted - 09/27/2018 :  10:18:55 AM  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
quote:
Originally posted by Hideo Fujii

Hi Katti,

How about like this?
token(nameof([Book1]!col("capacity"))$,2,'_')$=;
--Hideo Fujii


Yep, that works. Thanks
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minimax

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Posted - 10/11/2018 :  10:16:33 PM  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Hi Katti,

Range syntax would be a useful way to get plenty of info from a specified Origin object, like following

range ra=[Book1]Sheet2!col("capacity");
ra.name$=; //short name
ra.index=; //index

rA.lname$=; //long name
rA.nRows=; //number of rows in the column
rA.unit$=; //text in Units label row
//etc.


See more introduction for Range in

https://www.originlab.com/doc/LabTalk/guide/Range-Notation
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Katti

Norway
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Posted - 10/17/2018 :  05:21:58 AM  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
quote:
Originally posted by minimax

Hi Katti,

Range syntax would be a useful way to get plenty of info from a specified Origin object, like following

range ra=[Book1]Sheet2!col("capacity");
ra.name$=; //short name
ra.index=; //index

rA.lname$=; //long name
rA.nRows=; //number of rows in the column
rA.unit$=; //text in Units label row
//etc.


See more introduction for Range in

https://www.originlab.com/doc/LabTalk/guide/Range-Notation



Hi Hideo,

Thanks a lot, it gets a lot easier with range notation. What I did was:

range ra="capacity" // ra represents column with long name "capacity"
ra.index=; // which lets me get the column index
ra.name=; // and column name

Thanks for the help :-)
Edited by - Katti on 10/17/2018 05:22:36 AM
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