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openpyxl regex replace values in Excel column
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| import openpyxl | |
| import re | |
| wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('file01.xlsx') | |
| # print(wb.sheetnames) | |
| ws = wb["Sheet1"] | |
| number_rows = ws.max_row | |
| # Set Column number here ! | |
| for rownum in range(5, number_rows + 1): | |
| try: | |
| currentcell = ws.cell(row=rownum, column=8).value | |
| print("Original", currentcell) | |
| # replace anything that's not € or a digit . or , (OCR errors) | |
| ws.cell(row=rownum, column=8).value = re.sub(r"[^€$\d\.\,]", "", currentcell) | |
| print("Replaced with value: ", currentcell) | |
| except: | |
| print("Something went wrong") | |
| wb.save(r'fixed01.xlsx') |
Working now. (thanks to reddit, I missed a .value)
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This for some reason is not saving the regex replaced values to the new file..to be fixed.