This sounds strange to me. Usually "import crash" because of some Excel features included in the sheet, like improper formattings or links. In many cases they cannot be recognized or simply ignored with the VFP import command. Even if you know the Excel version and the number of records in the sheet, it will not help.


>Hi all,
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>Someone can help me?
>I need to know how to obtain the recordcount of a sheet in a excel file and the file version of this .xls. I can't use excel.application so I need another solution.
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>Because when a use :
> import from (FILE NAME) XL8 | XL5 | XLS sheet (NAME SHEET)
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>I dont know the file version and if the sheet (NAME SHEET) is empty, import crash.
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>Thx.