Unable to exact match and replace in excel

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Hi,
I am working on exporting data from db to excel.
I need to make some changes in the data retrieved in the cells.
To be precise i need to replace some strings with other.

e.g. 'ABB' needs to be replaced by 'AB'in the generated excel
'MNODays' needs to be replaced by 'LM Days'
'MN' needs to be replaced with 'LM Hours'

usinf Replace function I have tried the following:

<pre>Excel.Range rg1;
rg1 = excelSheet.get_Range(B:B, Type.Missing);
rg1.Cells.Replace("MNODays","LM Days", Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);
rg1.Cells.Replace("MN","LM Hours", Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);

The problem is that its exact match is not being taken and replaced. As in 'MNODays' gets replaced with 'LLM Days Hours' mixing it with the characters in second separate string 'MN'.

Is there any other way to achieve the exact match functionality?
Please help

Thanks

Posted 21-Feb-11 17:25pm

Aksh@169

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_Maxxx_ · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-21T18:34:00

This is all guesswork -)

Are you sure that is actually what you are seeing... i.e. .you start with
"MNODays"
and finish with
"LLM Days Hours"

If so, then something seems to me to be horribly wrong!
I'd break it down and just have the first replace and look at the results - if you get "LMDays" then the implication would seem to be that replacing "MN" by "LM Hours" on a cell with a value "LMDays" produces "LLM Days Hours" which is madness.

Are you sire you don't mean that the "MN" bit of "MNODays" gets replaced by "LM Hours" leaving you with "LM HoursODays"?

I think you will find that one of the parameters you are setting to "Type.Missing" can be set to tell the function to replace the whole cell value, rather than any part, if that is the real issue here.