XLConnect (version 0.2-9)

extractSheetName: Extracting the sheet name from a formula

Description

Extracts the sheet name from a formula of the form !

Usage

extractSheetName(formula)

Arguments

formula

Formula string of the form !. Note that the validity of the formula won't be checked.

Value

• Returns the name of the sheet referenced in the formula. For quoted sheet names (required if names contain e.g. whitespaces or exclamation marks (!)) in formulas the function returns the unquoted name.

Examples

extractSheetName(c("MySheet!$A$1", "'My Sheet'!$A$1", "'My!Sheet'!$A$1"))