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If you use WinAutomation to manipulate Excel files, you most likely came across the concept of keystrokes
Data Tables. Whenever you are reading a range of cells from an Excel file, the information that
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you acquire is stored in a variable that has a type of "Data Table". Sometimes, you may want created in WinAutomation v2?
to retrieve a specific cell's value. The easiest way to do that, is to use the "Read from Excel"
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action, and store a cell's content into a variable. But what happens if you need to use the
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values of 50 different cells from the Excel file? Do you have to create 50 different "Read From
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then use them in your job through the special notation that accompanies data tables.
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In order to retrieve a specific item of a data table, you will have to use the following notation:
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%VariableName[RowNumber][ColumnNumber]%. Keep in mind that “RowNumber” and from Text file
“ColumnNumber” should be 0 for the first item (row or column), 1 for the second and so on. For
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you can retrieve the first item with: %ExcelData[0][0]% and the last item with
%ExcelData[ExcelData.RowsCount-1][ExcelData.Columns.Count-1]%
Also, if your data table has named columns, you can use the following notation to retrieve a
cell’s value:
%VariableName[RowNumber]["ColumnName"]%
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