I have been using your script without any issue, until I had a data set with different row numbers (I mentioned above). So far, I had processed more than 5 groups of data sets (in each group I had 30 excel files), where in I did not face this kind of problem. Moreover, even I do not expect that, I would face this kind of issue. I thought, my data files have the same number of rows and columns. But, while processing multiple data files, I came to know that it differs. This is why I could not mention it earlier.
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Given this new information that files 6 to 10 (is it always 6 to 10, or s 6 to 10 just as an example;
It is an example only. My data set would not be same as I mentioned above. In some cases, each file differ in terms of row number (number of rows are not same for all the files). Whereas, the number of columns are same for all the files.
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is it org6.xls through org10.xls inclusive or does org10.xls go back to three lines) may have different numbers of lines than other files with no prior knowledge about which files are "short" or "long", how would you propose modifying any of the scripts suggested in post #22 to get the output you want based on this new information?
I need to copy only the field/column number 1 and 5 regardless of the number of rows each file have. It would be tedious to know which file is short and which file is long when I have 50 or 60 excel files.
If it a prerequisite to know, which file is short and which file is long to write a script for the same, I would not have asked for help.
You never said that any of the code that I had previously suggested worked for any of your data sets. You only said that there was a problem because the number of lines in files 6 through 10 only had two lines instead of three.
One possible solution would be to add empty rows to all of the files that have fewer rows than the longest file. If you did that as a first step, all of the existing scripts might do what you wanted. And, if you knew that files 6 - 10 would always contain one line less than the other files, it would be very easy to add an empty line to those four or five files without making the other processing any more complex.
Assuming that you will always have at least one file that is named orgdigits.xls where digits is a single digit and at least one file where digits is two digits and that you will never have any files where digits is more than two digits, one could try:
but I am disappointed that you were unwilling to make any attempt to solve this new wrinkle on your own.
With the other suggestions in post #22, I assume that you would be able to modify the last line of this code to handle any number of input files.
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