Hi folks,
Does anyone know of a free and ready-made way of reading an MS Excel .xls file? I've looked at Microsoft's terrifying 350 page specification of the xls file format and concluded that writing one from scratch is non-trivial. Ideally there would be a library I can pull into my existing C++ program.
So far a quick Google has revealed the existance of a paid-for library to do just this, but free is better. I figure if OpenOffice can open an xls file then there may well be something open-source.
Alternatively, is there maybe some kind of shortcut using something VB-Scripty that would open an xls file and convert it to plain text values so long as Excel/Office is installed?
Does anyone know of a free and ready-made way of reading an MS Excel .xls file? I've looked at Microsoft's terrifying 350 page specification of the xls file format and concluded that writing one from scratch is non-trivial. Ideally there would be a library I can pull into my existing C++ program.
So far a quick Google has revealed the existance of a paid-for library to do just this, but free is better. I figure if OpenOffice can open an xls file then there may well be something open-source.
Alternatively, is there maybe some kind of shortcut using something VB-Scripty that would open an xls file and convert it to plain text values so long as Excel/Office is installed?