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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e6c98a1a7cab60a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: import Excel file References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:23:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1087237428 217.209.116.179 (Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:23:48 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:23:48 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1483 Date: 2004-06-14T18:23:48+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Just reading in an Excel file isn't probably promising, because > it is not a text file. The structure of the binary data isn't > usually known. At least Microsoft tries to keep it secret. The Openoffice developers=20 seem to have figured it out fairly well, so there's always the=20 possibility of looking at their code. It's probably very hairy. > However, you could try exporting sheets to CSVs, > and read these with less effort. Personally I'd prefer TSV (tab-separated) if Excel can produce that. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson jor ers @sv ge. b n_p son eri nu