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Its numbers like ABC123 , HYU785, etc.. when i use '==', it gives an error .. so i knw its not numeric for sure ..

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Re^3: Weird excel parsing problem
by Kenosis (Priest) on Nov 05, 2012 at 18:52 UTC

    Well, using eq makes sense with these strings. Are you detecting any whitespaces around the strings which may be interfering with the equality test?