From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b424ec4b490c1d84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: excel files References: <20041005193515.6C38A4C409F@lovelace.ada-france.org> <4163DDD2.6030706@unixfu.net> In-Reply-To: <4163DDD2.6030706@unixfu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <%%U8d.12364$HO1.865538@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:27:10 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1097079931 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:25:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:25:31 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4806 Date: 2004-10-06T12:27:10-04:00 List-Id: Chris Humphries wrote: > stephane richard wrote: >> "Andrew" wrote in message >> news:mailman.208.1097055129.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... >>>> From: Alexandre Devaure >>>> Subject: Re: excel files >>>> tmoran@acm.org wrote: ... > Does anyone have any portable Ada code to offer for parsing excel files? > I am a newbie to COM and MFC (well knew it about 6 years ago), and > do not understand how to go about using ODBC or GNATCOM to do the > suggested solutions to this problem. Can someone post some code showing > how to do this, please :) >>> Andrew Carroll >>> Carroll-Tech >>> 720-273-6814 >>> andrew@carroll-tech.net I don't know if this works for you, but the easiest way to do this is to have Excel produce *.CSV file (comma delimited). while paying attention to any quoted fields (which may have commas as part of the data). Warren. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg