I read an API with Google Sheets and want to get results similarly to this:
+-------+-------------------+-----------------+ | Input | Formula | Result column | +-------+-------------------+-----------------+ | 11 | =MyApiFormula(A2) | responseValue11 | +-------+-------------------+-----------------+ | 22 | =MyApiFormula(A3) | responseValue22 | +-------+-------------------+-----------------+
But the API is a bit strange and puts always a header row into response. With it, the response of the first formula looks like:
+-------+-------------------+-------------------+ | Input | Formula | Result column | +-------+-------------------+-------------------+ | 11 | =MyApiFormula(A2) | responseHeading11 | +-------+-------------------+-------------------+ | | | responseValue11 | +-------+-------------------+-------------------+
and the second formula (=MyApiFormula(A3)) doesn’t work at all – sure, because it is forced to write into cells with already existing data.
I guess, this heading row can be avoided with a =QUERY formula with INDEX and an offset -1 – but I fail with correct syntax.
Could somoebody point me to the correct writing?
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Answer
QUERY syntax would be:
=QUERY(...; "offset 1"; 0)
substitute dots for your formula