xlsGetSheetSize

Purpose

Gets the size (rows and columns) of a specified sheet in an Excel® spreadsheet.

Format

{ r, c } = xlsGetSheetSize(file[, sheet])
Parameters:
  • file (string) – name of .xls or .xlsx file.

  • sheet (scalar) – Optional input, sheet index (1-based). Default = 1.

Returns:
  • r (scalar) – number of rows.

  • c (scalar) – number of columns.

Portability

Windows, Linux and macOS

Examples

Example 1: Pass in sheet number

Find the number of rows and columns in the first sheet of the example file, yarn.xlsx with the following code:

// File name with full path
fname = getGAUSShome() $+ "examples/yarn.xlsx";

sheet = 1;

// Pass in optional sheet number
{ r, c } = xlsGetSheetSize(fname, sheet);

After the above code:

r = 28
c =  4

The call to xlsGetSheetSize() could also be made without passing in the sheet number:

Example 2: Use default sheet index

// File name with full path
fname = getGAUSShome() $+ "examples/yarn.xlsx";

// Leave out optional sheet number
{ r, c } = xlsGetSheetSize(fname);

Since the default sheet index is 1, this code will assign r and c to the same values as the previous example.

Example 3: Use trap for custom error handling

If you do not want your program to terminate in the case of an error in this function, you can set the trap state as in the example below.

sheet = 1;

// Retain the old trap value so it can
// be reset to its previous state
oldtrap = trapchk(1);

// Set trap
trap 1;

{ r, c } = xlsGetSheetSize(fname, sheet);

// Check to see if return value is an error code
if scalmiss(r);
   // User error handling code here
   print "xlsGetSheetSize failed";
endif;

Remarks

If xlsGetSheetSize() fails, it will either terminate and print an error message or return a scalar error code, which can be decoded with scalerr, depending on the state of the trap flag.

trap 0

Print error message and terminate program.

trap 1

Return a scalar error code which can be checked for with scalmiss().

If a scalar error code is returned, both return values will be set with the error code.