>This may sound like a dumb question but can any one tell me how to test for the type of data comming out of excel. i.e. if the cell is text or numeric
In Visual FoxPro, you can use the type() or vartype() function. I think this should work for values obtained from Excel, too.
HTH, Hilmar.
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