cfspreadsheet

I am reading data from a spreadsheet. One of the column in the spreadsheet contains spaces. For Example, Columns names are [first name,last name,roll]. I am getting a qryObj after reading the spreadsheet. Now when i am trying to read first name from the query <cfquery dbtype="query" name="getName"> SELECT [first name] FROM qryObj </cfquery> It is throwing db error. I have tried with ['first name'] also but still it is throwing error. The error is: Query Of Queries syntax error. Encountered "[. Incorrect Select List, Incorrect select column I did crazy stuff like googling to see what people had

I am creating a spreadsheet object using cfspreadsheet. Would like to make some of the individual cells as protected (read-only). Please let me know if anybody has tried this before. I did try putting cell format as locked but it did not seems to work. Here is the sample code: <cfset a = spreadsheetnew()> <cfset format1 = structNew()> <cfset format1.locked=true> <cfset SpreadsheetFormatCell(a,format1,1,1)> <cfspreadsheet action="write" filename="#expandpath('.')#/test.xls" name="a" overwrite="true"> Thanks. Locking a cell does nothing unless the sheet is protected ie using cfspreadsheet's

Edit at the end Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? These are my expectations and observations: I expect a worksheet named Search Parameters to have cell a1 in bold red font. I get what I expect. I expect a worksheet named "4D,CCCU,SDAU" which has data starting in row 3. I get this. I expect row 3 to have the text "bold font 3 green true", and to be in bold green font. I get the text, but I get bold red font, which matches cell a1 in the other sheet. In fact, the formatting in this cell will always match cell a1 from the other sheet. I expect the remaining cells to have a value like "normal

Is it possible to get the datatype or format of a column or cell in a spreadsheet when you read it using cfspreadsheet ? I am converting spreadsheet data from an excel spreadsheet to a database table. Thus far I just format everything as varchars, but it would be good if I could specify dates as dates and integers as integers. Unfortunately, not using cfspreadsheet or the built in spreadsheet functions. They only return what is displayed , not the underlying values. However you could roll your own by tapping into the underlying POI workbook . A few things to keep in mind: Unlike database