Forum Discussion
Maybe you can try playing with the Cell formatting
setting of the Excel parser snap.
I had to apply a similar workaround to numerical values in german Excel files - which come as 2,255.90
- so we need to load the file unformatted (which brings it as 2255,90
- and then replace ,
with .
before running parseFloat()
(otherwise parseFloat fails).
We do have an open issue for this, but to me, the excel parser snap is not very mature, and will potentially have quite some edgecases noone thought about (i encountered mine on the first usage of that snap).
The parser knows it’s dealing with dates - but returns it as string (the same happens with numbers) - why - only snaplogic will know. Probably an oversight in the initial release, which is now very difficult to change in a non-breaking manner.