Question

I would like to import some basic data (only few integers) from an Excel file into a F# list.
Here is the code I compute which open an Excel file, take the value of the Cell “C6” and ‘store’ it in a variable called l.
However it does not compiled as an type error appeared. Indeed type of first value is obj.
How can I convert it into int?

//#r "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel"

//#r "office"

open Microsoft.Office.Interop


let xlApp = new Excel.ApplicationClass()

let xlWorkBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(@"C:\Users\Fabien C\Desktop\algo données.xlsx")

let xlWorkSheet = xlWorkBook.Worksheets.["Produits"] :?> Excel.Worksheet

let firstValue = xlWorkSheet.Cells.[6,3]

let (l : int) = firstValue

Answer 1

I think just add

:?> int

to the end of the last line to downcast firstValue, but see also the linked duplicate question for more on Excel interop.