How to avoid OLEDB converting "."s into "#"s in column names?
- by Andrew Miner
I'm using the ACE OLEDB driver to read from an Excel 2007 spreadsheet, and I'm finding that any '.' character in column names get converted to a '#' character. For example, if I have the following in a spreadsheet:
Name Amt. Due Due Date
Andrew 12.50 4/1/2010
Brian 20.00 4/12/2010
Charlie 1000.00 6/30/2010
the name of the second column would be reported as "Amt# Due" when read with the following code:
OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection(
"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; Data Source={0}; " +
"Extended Properties=\"Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES;FMT=Delimited;IMEX=1\"");
OldDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand("SELECT * FROM MyTable", connection);
OleDbReader dataReader = command.ExecuteReader();
System.Console.WriteLine(dataReader.GetName(1));
I've read through all the documentation I can find and I haven't found anything which even mentions that this will happen. Has anyone run into this before? Is there a way to fix this behavior?
