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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e6c98a1a7cab60a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s53.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeff C," Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: import Excel file X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s53 1087261880 24.147.74.171 (Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:11:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:11:20 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:11:20 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1489 Date: 2004-06-15T01:11:20+00:00 List-Id: "Tanker" wrote in message news:cakq5f$cot$05$1@news.t-online.com... > That was my first idea too, but the guy who I'm writing the program for, > thinks that is a good thing to import an excel file directly without the > step of making an csv file. A friend told me today, that there must be a ms > tool for C++ (Ms Visual C++) that can sort out the relevant information from > the excel file. I could bind the C++ code in my ada programm and use the > excel infos. > If it's too difficult to do, I will convince him that it must work with the > cvs transformation. > There is already a tool that does it quite well. It is called Excel :) Seriously, excel (at least older version) could be accessed via COM libraries. You can auto create bindings to the excel COM libraries pretty easily using GNATCOM http://www.adapower.com/gnatcom/index.html For some things it is really easy to use the COM interface. For others...not so easy. Not sure where excel falls.