From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T14:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: parseexcel and email fields

Jason Fox wrote:

> 
> 
> I am having a problem reading in a spreadsheet that contains email
> addresses in  one of the columns.  I get a "cannot convert nil into
> String" error when I try to parse the spreadsheet (see below).
> 
> Has anyone else had success with using parseexcel with spreadsheets that
> contain email addresses?  Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Jason
> 
> Here is the stack trace:
> 
> can't convert nil into String - (TypeError)
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:249:in `<<'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:249:in
> `get_big_data'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:138:in
> `get_data'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:290:in
> `get_nth_pps'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:281:in
> `get_nth_pps'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:199:in
> `initialize'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:355:in
> `get_header'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/olestorage.rb:110:in
> `initialize'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/parser.rb:172:in `parse'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/parseexcel/parseexcel.rb:10:in `parse'
> ..
> 

I am willing to bet the problem lies somewhere in the code ... the code you
didn't post.

-- 
Paul Lutus
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