Getting strings from spread (from excel file)

vvvv beta question
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I’m using this contribution to read excel files: https://vvvv.org/contribution/excel-reader. However, it does not return the nr of columns and rows of the excel files. In order to get the first row, I’m trying the following:
From the spread of strings that has n slices with text followed by n empty slices followed by n slices with text (and so on), I would like to get only the first n slices of text. This should be then the first row of the excel file.

With the = (string) node, I can detect empty slices, but I can’t figure out how to extract the filled slices before the first empty slice to get the first row. Any suggestion?

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Post the patch and excel file

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The “select” node did the job!