How to read the special character (plus symbol) from Excel Spreadsheet

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How to read the special character (plus symbol) from Excel Spreadsheet

ramya-sc opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Hi,
Assume , I have excel rows, something like below,

If I try to read phone number +11234567890 , plus symbol is missing in UI or in console data .
Can you please suggest me on this ?
Thanks.

Nikolay · Answer 1 · Sat Mar 21 2020 22:48:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Provide the file

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ramya-sc · Answer 2 · Mon Mar 23 2020 02:29:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@catamphetamine , please find the below excel file.

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Demo_sheet.xlsx
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Nikolay · Answer 3 · Mon Mar 23 2020 03:51:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The content of the cells is without +, so the library behaves correctly.
The output format of the cells is "Custom": \+0;.

Users are supposed to define their own formats for Excel data:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/display-numbers-as-phone-numbers-7feabe49-15b3-411c-a030-781b4f2c87dd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMNmrTHWosQ

So in your case you should prepend the + after parsing cell values.