Re: [Dev-C++] question

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

I have never tried to locate information about the xls file format.
However, there are Excel ODBC drivers out there that might be an idea to
look into - shouldn't be too much different from using a MySQL backend.

/Per W

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 wa...@wa... wrote:

> On 4 Dec 2004 at 21:39, giampietro.gardenghi wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm a beginner C++ user, and I'm tring to output an array in excel
> > format: the only result I have accomplished is to obtain an array
> > which excel reads as separate rows but not sepate columns. Probably
> I
> > should use a TAB sepation between values, which I am not able to
> > insert. Thank you Giampietro Gardenghi
>
> You have several options.  You can write out your text file in a
> delimited format and then when you read the file, tell it you want to
> read in a delimited file and tell it the delimiter.  You can delimit
> columns on white space (like spaces or tabs) or you can use a
> predefined character (like '^' or '|' or ',').  Someone's already
> posted how to print out with tabs.
>
> OR, you can actually find out what the file format is for .xls files
> and write out your file in that format.  But that's going to be a bit
> more complicated and I don't know the .xls format.  You can probably
> dig it up with a little research and/or experimentation.
>
> Watson (the pencil neck) Davis
>
>
>
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