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What is "#" represnt in Excel Or what & how # use in excel, How Excel interpret this symbol?

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Chirag R Raval

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Dear All,

I have a confusion that what is the use of Symbol # in excel? or how excel interpret
this "#"symbol?

reference is below thread of this site .

(1) https://chandoo.org/forum/threads/h...-to-n-a-in-columns-e-and-f.40201/#post-240467

in below thread ,post no 2 is unanswered.

(2) https://chandoo.org/forum/threads/e...ing-to-eliminate-ascii-160.39672/#post-237450.

(3) I also try here
https://www.jplcomputer.co.uk/excel-symbols

(4) https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-symbol-do-in-Excel-It-keeps-showing-up-as-why-is-this-happening
Just for clarification of knowledge what is "#" is in excel/ Excel VBA?

Please guide.

Regards,

Chirag Raval
 
Dear Sir,

Sorry Sir, i can not understand.

can you spread some more focus on it?

What type of place holder it is?
Is it place holder for Character?String?Date?Object?
How to precisely use it in excel vba? what is the scope of it in
VBA & formulas?

It can be use in loop as " for each #" in range ??

Can you give some example using it?.

I search on net but not found anything that use it .
also please share some links if you found as of use # in excel VBA.

it is only 1 option as place holder? or there are more options there?

Regards,

Chirag Raval
 
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It's just text that gets replaced in the formula string (with the address of a range). The fact that it is # in the example is just chance. It could equally be | or @ or any other text that doesn't appear in the formula. The use of # has no special significance at all.

The formula string starts out as:
IF(#>"",UPPER(#),"")

and then the Replace function just replaces "#" with the address of the specified range:

Code: 
Replace("IF(#>"""",UPPER(#),"""")", "#", .Address)

so the formula becomes for example:

IF(A1:A10>"",UPPER(A1:A10),"")
 
How, Excel interprets # depends on context.

As Debaser explained, in code examples you have in link, it's just place holder, which is then replaced with range.address.

There are other uses for # sign.

1. When used after a variable. It declares variable as double type. You might have seen Marc L or Jindon use this type of declaration in their code in this forum.
Code: 
a# = 1.1

You can read more about this in link below.
http://www.globaliconnect.com/excel...e-data-types-in-excel-vba&catid=79&Itemid=475

2. When used in front of variable. It assigns it to OS/Processor variable.
Commonly used when working with FreeFile() to export & import text files.
See shrivallabha's post for brief explanation.
https://chandoo.org/forum/threads/need-help-copy-excel-data-and-paste-to-notepad.28125/#post-168521

3. When used in front of If statements. It's used as conditional compilation.
Often used to check OS or other built-in conditional compilation constant.

Ex: making api code compatible between 32 & 64 bit.
Code: 
#if Win64 then
  Declare PtrSafe Function MyMathFunc Lib "User32" (ByVal N As LongLong) As LongLong
#else
  Declare Function MyMathFunc Lib "User32" (ByVal N As Long) As Long
#end if
 
Other than VBA....!

New Dynamic Array Formulas in Office 365 Version.

# is added for New Array Reference Notation, e.g. B2# refers to full range B2:B10
 
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