read excel files?

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slenkar(Posted 2008) [#1]
Is there a mod that can read microsoft excel files?


Brucey(Posted 2008) [#2]
The old-style .xls format? Not to my knowledge.

There appear to be plenty pay-for libraries available to do it though. (geepers, don't they charge a lot for those things!)


slenkar(Posted 2008) [#3]
what about other formats like CSV?


Brucey(Posted 2008) [#4]
comma-separated files are pretty easy to read...

Read a line.
Split it by comma.

Someone may even have an example in the code archives.


slenkar(Posted 2008) [#5]
ah OK thanks


Volker(Posted 2008) [#6]
The tokenizer in the codearchive is nice for splitting strings by comma
or whatever.
http://blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1460