In switzerland, we like rounding monetary numbers to 2 decimal places, with multiples of 5 for the fractional part. This is (probably) because our (physical) money has no “cent” coins, but we have 5 cents coins. That’s commonly called “5 cents” rounding. Example: 1.6777777 becomes 1.70 1.4444444 becomes 1.45 1.0333333 becomes 1.05 and so on.… Continue reading How to round a number to a five cents multiple in VB/A
Do you often need to manipulate filenames in VBA ?Here’s a small set of very useful functions that I regularly use: GetFileExt
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Public Function GetFileExt(ByRef psFilename As String) As String |
Get the file extension part of a filename, without the leading dot (“.”). Example (type in immediate window):
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?GetFileExt("test.txt") txt ?GetFileExt("https://www.example.com/index.html") html |
StripFileExt
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Public Function StripFileExt(ByRef psFilename As String) As String |
Get the left part of a filename (and path), without… Continue reading Manipulating filenames in Excel or Access, or VB/A
Did you ever need to quickly replace some placeholders in a string with a variable number of literals or variable values ? Here’s a ssprintf() VB/A variant of C’s sprintf() function. Let’s say that the first “s” in the name stands for “simplified”. We’re – of course – far away from the full fledged power… Continue reading A simplified sprintf function for VBA
Do you want of the get rid of the accented characters when you convert a string to upper case in VBA ? Sure, if you’re developing an Access (or another Office – Excel, Word, etc… – or VB/A) application targeting french, you’ll want to sometimes avoid the À for Ucase$(“à”). I’m speaking of the default… Continue reading The case for the accented characters
I was working last week on a Microsoft Access application and I needed to get some data from a webserver running Apache/PHP. Exchanging data with the server was easy, the WinHTTP and XML ActiveX library components are really cool and easy to use for that. But then I came unto some unexpected trouble when I… Continue reading How to get the same result in VBA and in PHP computing a CCITT CRC checksum
Accessing the clipboard in Windows becomes quite tricky in VBA, particularly if you have to stay 32 and 64 bits compatible. Here’s my compilation of portable routines, inspired by MSDN, Internet scraping and good sense. First the Declares section (I know, it pours out of the frame on the right, just select and copy the… Continue reading Share the Clipboard with VBA and the Windows API
If you try to open a connection to an Access database via ADO, you’ll have to use a different provider, whether you’re coding for 32 or 64 bits environments. Here’s a utility function I use for that (updated 25.02.2014):
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Public Function ADOGetAccessConnString(ByVal psDatabasePathname As String) As String Dim sConnString As String #If Win64 Then sConnString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" & psDatabasePathname #Else If GetFileExt(psDatabasePathname) = "accdb" Then sConnString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" & psDatabasePathname Else sConnString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & psDatabasePathname End If #End If ADOGetAccessConnString = sConnString End Function |
Of course you have to have the correct jet engine files installed on the target… Continue reading Microsoft Access Databases ADO connection strings for 32/64 bits
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