Re: excel files

[Chris Humphries <chris@unixfu.net>]

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> Chris Humphries wrote:
> 
>> stephane richard wrote:
>>
>>> "Andrew" <andrew@carroll-tech.net> wrote in message 
>>> news:mailman.208.1097055129.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
>>>
>>>>> From: Alexandre Devaure <adevaure@free.fr>
>>>>> 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.

yeah i am well aware of exporting to csv files, the discussion is
about doing it on the excel files themselves which is what i was
talking about.

earlier in this thread i also recommended that, as well as using
perl with perl modules that can read excel files and get data
from it :)