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BSwid
Level IV

JMP Excel File Import - Can I ignore columns in the Excel file?

Either in the import wizard or in the import script (data source script) can I write script that ignores certain columns so that it is not imported from the source file to the JMP file?

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txnelson
Super User

Re: JMP Excel File Import - Can I ignore columns in the Excel file?

This is all found in the Scripting Index....description and examples

     Help==>Scripting Index........search on "delete columns"

delete columns.PNG

Jim

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msharp
Super User (Alumni)

Re: JMP Excel File Import - Can I ignore columns in the Excel file?

No, and you wouldn't want to.  It may be unintuitive but it will be faster to just import the entire .csv file and then delete the extra columns via dt << Delect Columns(ListOfColumns).  CSV importers are heavily optimized for reading the data, they aren't built for data clean up which would come at the cost of too much overhead.

BSwid
Level IV

Re: JMP Excel File Import - Can I ignore columns in the Excel file?

Thank you.  So in summary, import all, then add to the script the delete columns syntax.  Could you please point me ot the syntax in JSL to delete multiple columns?  

txnelson
Super User

Re: JMP Excel File Import - Can I ignore columns in the Excel file?

This is all found in the Scripting Index....description and examples

     Help==>Scripting Index........search on "delete columns"

delete columns.PNG

Jim