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RE: [Dev-C++] Read XLS files

[<Mat...@Ve...>]

The first question to be asking is, is reading these files actually
necessary? If not, you could do very much the same thing with comma or tab
delimited files, or XML files, and then you would avoid the headaches of the
binary XLS format, which is so thoroughly broken that not even Microsoft
understands it.

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Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Read XLS files


Feel free to post directly to this list :)

/Per W

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Josh McFarlane wrote:

> XLS files are highly shrouded in mystery. If you can find good
> documentation on it, feel free to point me that way.
>
> On 6/8/05, Setrio <se...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone knows if DevC++ has a package to read and write XLS files?
> >
> > tks
> >
> >
>
>
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RE: [Dev-C++] Read XLS files

[Jay B. <jay...@ni...>]

[snip]
The first question to be asking is, is reading these files actually
necessary? If not, you could do very much the same thing with comma or
tab
delimited files, or XML files, and then you would avoid the headaches of
the
binary XLS format, which is so thoroughly broken that not even Microsoft
understands it.
[/snip]

If the OP does not have anything other than the XLS files then all of
this is moot unless you want to require the user to save the file as
tab-delimited or CSV. I have not found any COM classes that work really
well for doing this.

Re: [Dev-C++] Read XLS files

[Setrio <se...@gm...>]

Yes, it must be XLS files. Ok, if i can do some class or functions to
access this files i let you know.

tks

On 6/8/05, Jay Blanchard <jay...@ni...> wrote:
> [snip]
> The first question to be asking is, is reading these files actually
> necessary? If not, you could do very much the same thing with comma or
> tab
> delimited files, or XML files, and then you would avoid the headaches of
> the
> binary XLS format, which is so thoroughly broken that not even Microsoft
> understands it.
> [/snip]
>=20
> If the OP does not have anything other than the XLS files then all of
> this is moot unless you want to require the user to save the file as
> tab-delimited or CSV. I have not found any COM classes that work really
> well for doing this.
>