Access to excel spread sheets

[Jordi]

Hello,

can anyone tell what is the best way to access to a excel spread sheet from
c++?
I would be interested in read it and write it.

Thank you in advance
Jordi

[Ian Collins]

Jordi wrote:

Hello,

can anyone tell what is the best way to access to a excel spread sheet from
c++?
I would be interested in read it and write it.

Good luck!

Excel is a closed format.

--
Ian Collins.

[Tom]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 08:24:27 +0100, "Jordi" <jl***@terra.es> wrote:

Hello,

can anyone tell what is the best way to access to a excel spread sheet from
c++?
I would be interested in read it and write it.

Thank you in advance
Jordi

There is an extensive Visual Basic interface into Excel and several
books available on the topic. I'd start there and if you are dedicated
to C++ ... use the examples in the Visual Basic/Excel books as a
starting point.

[Ben Radford]

Ian Collins wrote:

Excel is a closed format.

OpenOffice can handle Excel spreadsheets can't it?

--
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?"

[roberts.noah]

Jordi wrote:

Hello,

can anyone tell what is the best way to access to a excel spread sheet from
c++?
I would be interested in read it and write it.

First, ask you question in an appropriate newsgroup. This group is not
OS specific and so questions of an OS specific nature are not topical
and besides...nobody necessarily knows.

As I recall, MS opens office files as databases so go look at the
database functionality.

[Default User]

Jordi wrote:

Hello,

can anyone tell what is the best way to access to a excel spread
sheet from c++?
I would be interested in read it and write it.

For all your file format questions, try wotsit first:

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=2&s=database

Brian
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[Ian Collins]

Ben Radford wrote:

Ian Collins wrote:

Excel is a closed format.

OpenOffice can handle Excel spreadsheets can't it?

Yes, but it ain't C++!

I suppose you could answer the OP by saying 'import into OO and save in
OO's native format, then open the OO XML files with C++'

--
Ian Collins.

[roberts.noah]

Ian Collins wrote:

Ben Radford wrote:

Ian Collins wrote:

Excel is a closed format.

OpenOffice can handle Excel spreadsheets can't it?

Yes, but it ain't C++!

I suppose you could answer the OP by saying 'import into OO and save in
OO's native format, then open the OO XML files with C++'

Obviously he can answer as he wants to....besides, XML isn't C++ either.

[Ian Collins]

ro**********@gmail.com wrote:

Ian Collins wrote:

Ben Radford wrote:

Ian Collins wrote:
Excel is a closed format.
OpenOffice can handle Excel spreadsheets can't it?

Yes, but it ain't C++!

I suppose you could answer the OP by saying 'import into OO and save in
OO's native format, then open the OO XML files with C++'

Obviously he can answer as he wants to....besides, XML isn't C++ either.

I didn't say it was, but it's a relatively trivial task in C++ to work
with a plain text file than a closed binary one.

--
Ian Collins.