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.