Excel & AppleScripting
Excel & AppleScripting
- Subject: Excel & AppleScripting
- From: Dan Black <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:48:15 -0500
- Thread-topic: Excel & AppleScripting
Title: Excel & AppleScripting
Hi All!
Hopefully not everyone on this list (is there anyone?) is on here just trolling for trouble-shooting, but unfortunately that’s the reason I’m joining. I like applescripting and have used it before a few times for some really simple stuff. But now I’ve got a task that is a bit more complex.
I want to take an Excel cell’s value which is formatted as Currency and convert the number to plain-English. That is to say “$54.32” would be converted to “Fifty Four Dollars and Thirty Two Cents.” I have a VB Macro that was built in to the Excel file, which appears like it would work if it were on Windows.
While working on translating the code from VB to AppleScript I’ve encountered a curious problem. I cannot seem to grab the value of any cell that has Currency formatting. For example if I had four cells, A1, A2, B1 and B2 with respective values of [$100, null, 100, null] then the following script will (obviously) work:
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
tell active sheet
set temp to value of cell "B1" as text
set value of cell "B2" to temp
end tell
end tell
Whereas the following will set the value of cell B2 to ““missing value””:
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
tell active sheet
set temp to value of interior object of cell "A1"
set value of cell "A2" to temp
end tell
end tell
How can I change the format and/or data type (from currency to number or real) of the contents of a single cell so that I may get down to the real nitty-gritty of the script?
Thank you so much to anyone who took the time to read this over and give it some thought!
Dan Black
Design Matters Inc!
For reference, here is the vbs I’ll be translating once I can figure out the currency stuff:
Option Explicit
'****************' Main Function *'****************
Function SpellNumber(ByVal MyNumber)
Dim Dollars, Cents, Temp
Dim DecimalPlace, Count
ReDim Place(9) As String
Place(2) = " Thousand "
Place(3) = " Million "
Place(4) = " Billion "
Place(5) = " Trillion " ' String representation of amount
MyNumber = Trim(Str(MyNumber)) ' Position of decimal place 0 if none
DecimalPlace = InStr(MyNumber, ".")
'Convert cents and set MyNumber to dollar amount
If DecimalPlace > 0 Then
Cents = GetTens(Left(Mid(MyNumber, DecimalPlace + 1) & "00", 2))
MyNumber = Trim(Left(MyNumber, DecimalPlace - 1))
End If
Count = 1
Do While MyNumber <> ""
Temp = GetHundreds(Right(MyNumber, 3))
If Temp <> "" Then Dollars = Temp & Place(Count) & Dollars
If Len(MyNumber) > 3 Then
MyNumber = Left(MyNumber, Len(MyNumber) - 3)
Else
MyNumber = ""
End If
Count = Count + 1
Loop
Select Case Dollars
Case ""
Dollars = "No Dollars"
Case "One"
Dollars = "One Dollar"
Case Else
Dollars = Dollars & " Dollars"
End Select
Select Case Cents
Case ""
Cents = " and No Cents"
Case "One"
Cents = " and One Cent"
Case Else
Cents = " and " & Cents & " Cents"
End Select
SpellNumber = Dollars & Cents
End Function
'*******************************************
' Converts a number from 100-999 into text *
'*******************************************
Function GetHundreds(ByVal MyNumber)
Dim Result As String
If Val(MyNumber) = 0 Then Exit Function
MyNumber = Right("000" & MyNumber, 3) 'Convert the hundreds place
If Mid(MyNumber, 1, 1) <> "0" Then
Result = GetDigit(Mid(MyNumber, 1, 1)) & " Hundred "
End If
'Convert the tens and ones place
If Mid(MyNumber, 2, 1) <> "0" Then
Result = Result & GetTens(Mid(MyNumber, 2))
Else
Result = Result & GetDigit(Mid(MyNumber, 3))
End If
GetHundreds = Result
End Function
'*********************************************
' Converts a number from 10 to 99 into text. *
'*********************************************
Function GetTens(TensText)
Dim Result As String
Result = "" 'null out the temporary function value
If Val(Left(TensText, 1)) = 1 Then ' If value between 10-19
Select Case Val(TensText)
Case 10: Result = "Ten"
Case 11: Result = "Eleven"
Case 12: Result = "Twelve"
Case 13: Result = "Thirteen"
Case 14: Result = "Fourteen"
Case 15: Result = "Fifteen"
Case 16: Result = "Sixteen"
Case 17: Result = "Seventeen"
Case 18: Result = "Eighteen"
Case 19: Result = "Nineteen"
Case Else
End Select
Else ' If value between 20-99
Select Case Val(Left(TensText, 1))
Case 2: Result = "Twenty "
Case 3: Result = "Thirty "
Case 4: Result = "Forty "
Case 5: Result = "Fifty "
Case 6: Result = "Sixty "
Case 7: Result = "Seventy "
Case 8: Result = "Eighty "
Case 9: Result = "Ninety "
Case Else
End Select
Result = Result & GetDigit _
(Right(TensText, 1)) 'Retrieve ones place
End If
GetTens = Result
End Function
'*******************************************
' Converts a number from 1 to 9 into text. *
'*******************************************
Function GetDigit(Digit)
Select Case Val(Digit)
Case 1: GetDigit = "One"
Case 2: GetDigit = "Two"
Case 3: GetDigit = "Three"
Case 4: GetDigit = "Four"
Case 5: GetDigit = "Five"
Case 6: GetDigit = "Six"
Case 7: GetDigit = "Seven"
Case 8: GetDigit = "Eight"
Case 9: GetDigit = "Nine"
Case Else: GetDigit = ""
End Select
End Function
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