Reading Excel sheet name with characters

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Hello,

I have a Excel file with sheetname, "Test- Sheet!" from where I am importing data to a sql table.

I am using Excel Oledb for this.

string firstSheetName = "Test- Sheet!"

OleDbAdapter oleAdapter = new OleDbAdapter ("SELECT * FROM [" + firstSheetName + "$]", dbConnection);

I am getting error saying, "[Test- Sheet!$] is NOT a VALID Name. Make sure that it does not include Invalid characters or punctuation and that it is not too long"

Can anyone suggest a solution to this issue?

Thanks

Posted 12-Apr-11 17:57pm

vasini

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Solution 1

Try using IMEX in Connection String.

See below link for details:
http://www.connectionstrings.com/excel[^]

Posted 12-Apr-11 18:03pm

Wild-Programmer

Updated 12-Apr-11 18:05pm

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vasini 13-Apr-11 10:34am

Thanks for your response.

I used IMEX. Its considering the Column names with special characters. But I need the sheet names with special characters. I am using OLEDB and importing the data from that sheet which has special characters in it.

Can you pls help me in getting sheet names?

Thanks

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Ashishmau · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-12T18:41:00

Solution 2

In ur case ! represents by _ in .net like

VB

string firstSheetName = "Test- Sheet_"

Why u r harcoding excelname
U can retreive it using like this

C#

dtExcelsheetname = excelcon.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, new object[] { null, null, null, "TABLE" });
        string[] excelSheets = new String[dtExcelsheetname.Rows.Count];
        int j = 0;
        foreach (DataRow row in dtExcelsheetname.Rows)
        {
            excelSheets[j] = row["TABLE_NAME"].ToString();
            j++;
        }

Posted 12-Apr-11 18:41pm

Ashishmau

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vasini 13-Apr-11 10:35am

I am using the same to get the sheet names. But one of my sheet name has special characters in it. Its faling to read that sheet name by using OLEDB.

string firstSheetName = "Test- Sheet!"

OleDbAdapter oleAdapter = new OleDbAdapter ("SELECT * FROM [" + firstSheetName + "$]", dbConnection);

Do you have any idea for this?
Thanks

Ashishmau 15-Apr-11 0:16am

u replace "Test- Sheet!" with "Test- Sheet_"

vasini 19-Apr-11 11:58am

Thank you so Much. It worked for me.

Ashishmau 20-Apr-11 0:17am

then accept the solution if it works

Vinod_D 5-Apr-13 9:18am

Thank for the solution. it worked for me.