[Jprogramming] Strange behaviour in J OLE Server for Excel

[bill lam]

What if you replace a=. with a=: ?

mer, 14 Apr 2010, Bartsch, Martin skribis:
> Hello,
> 
> I´m going to use the J OLE Server for Excel in one project.
> This seems to me a great solution where everyone wants to use excel and I want to develop the software in my language of choice J.
> 
> So far I have one issue with getting strings out of J into Excel-VBA. 
> The following example gives two different values for x ("???") and a ("hello world").
> 
> 1 Sub jserver_issue()
> 2   ec = js.do("a=.'hello world'")
> 3   ec = js.get("a", x)
> 4   MsgBox x
> 5   ec = js.do("wdinfo a")
> 6 End Sub
> 
> Is this a normal / expected behaviour ? 
> Has anyone found the same issue or am I doing something wrong ?
> 
> Thanks for help,
> 
> Martin 

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