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rmfleming

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Posted - 10/17/2006 :  10:58:09 AM  Show Profile  Edit Topic  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Topic
Origin Version (Select Help-->About Origin): 7.5 SR6
Operating System:XP

I want to add a column named "Nd" to a worksheet if it doesn't already exist. The labtalk script below works most of the time, but sometimes it doesn't recognize that column(Nd) is already there and adds another column Nd1, Nd2 ...

if(!colnum(Nd)) {wks.addCol(Nd);}; # Add Nd column to worksheet;

Is there a more robust way to do this?
Robert

Mike Buess

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Posted - 10/17/2006 :  11:04:08 AM  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Hi Robert,

The worksheet -v colName command is designed to do exactly what you want... add the named column if it doesn't exist, do nothing if it does.

wo -v Nd;

Mike Buess
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