From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:ad4:4e92:0:b0:5ef:4ec7:c70a with SMTP id dy18-20020ad44e92000000b005ef4ec7c70amr420934qvb.1.1682018666464; Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:24:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:3187:0:b0:b95:3e0b:45b8 with SMTP id x129-20020a253187000000b00b953e0b45b8mr74315ybx.2.1682018666174; Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:24:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:1210:2e90:8100:ed16:afa:6e63:c227; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:1210:2e90:8100:ed16:afa:6e63:c227 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8536a0ef-e0c1-4c4f-849c-704c2bca035an@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada interface to Excel file From: Gautier write-only address Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:24:26 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65123 List-Id: > G. de Montmollin has an Ada Excel writer, an Ada pkg for writing Excel files > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/excel-writer/). Presumably it could be > modified to read them. Actually, it is a completely different job. Note that it is the case for many formats (think of HTML or XML for instance). Now, you find in the Excel Writer toolbox a program called biff_dump.adb that supports some early Excel formats and could be extended. For the current format(s) (.xlsx), you can combine Zip-Ada for the container and XML-Ada for the contents. Same for the .ods format.