From: Love U Ruby <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-12T05:14:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Issue with Excel column values read.

Wayne Brisette wrote in post #1096356:
> Looking at your previous example list, you're right you have a mixture.
> But the
> question I have is how do you know *what* is suppose to be there? Is
> every 6th
> item in your list suppose to be an integer? You have to do a bit of
> critical
> thinking here. How is the program suppose to know what to use? Here is
> the one
> know I can provide. You know that numbers will always be represented as
> real
> numbers. The question is knowing that, what can you trigger off of to
> determine
> when to make it an integer? Once you determine that bit of logic,

There presence is dynamic in the column, but some times couldn't be 
there.


Thanks

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