Text Channel Problem

[Dr Cohen]

I've imported some data from excel into Diadem, several text channels among them.  When I look at the channel contents in the View tab everything looks fine but as soon as I attempt to manipulate some of the text data (doing some simple string comparisons) in a script all I seem to be getting from the channels are NOVALUE.  It's really weird, I can see all the text strings in the channel fine, but can't seem to access the data.  The channel property NoValues is set to Yes for all my text channels. 

Any ideas why this is happenings and how to fix it?

Thanks,

[Julia Dawkins]

Hello - how are you attempting to access these channels via a script?  Could you give an example of what you are trying to do?  Also, what version of DIAdem are you using?  I think since DIAdem 10.1 there is a neat new variable, "ChV" that you can use to access channel values of any data type.  In older versions, you had to specify "ChD" for numeric and "ChT" for text channels, which was kind of annoying.

[Dr Cohen]

Well, I didn't know about ChT.  That fixed it, thanks!