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I have an automated Tradestation strategy that needs to get data for each symbol from a spreadsheet I made. I have had problems using ElXL function that is built by Tradestation. I keep getting the error: Workshheet name should not contain extended path information. The problem is that I dont have the extended path information in the code to begin with so I dont understand this error. Here is my simple excel code based on the demo: inputs: string WorkbookName("FuturesBigList.xls"), string WorksheetName("FeatureList"); var:bool WorksheetReady(false); var:bool XLStarted(false); XLStarted=ELXL_Initialize; If XLStarted then begin WorksheetReady=ELXL_WithSheet(WorkbookName,WorkShe etName); vars: string Instrument(GetSymbolName); vars: string ExcelSymbol(""); vars: int GetSheet(1); vars: int getrow(2); vars: int getcolum(1); vars: int RowCounter(2); Vars:Margin$(1); vars:double oNumvar(0); Vars:string oStringVal(""); vars:bool getrtn(false); If WorksheetReady then begin For GetRow =2 to 100 begin RowCounter=getrow; getrtn= ELXL_GetCellStringRC(Getrow,1,oStringVal); ExcelSymbol= oStringVal; print("ExcelSymbol", Excelsymbol); If ExcelSymbol=Instrument then begin getrtn= ElXL_GetCellNumberRC(Getrow,12,oNumvar); Margin$=oNumvar; print("GetRow",Getrow); print("margin$",margin$); end; end; end; end;

I have a strategy that needs to get a risk value from my excel sheet- I tried to used ELXL addon but could not get the program to work correctly. What are fast methods to get data from .csv or .xls file?