[Newbies] Is it possible to manipulate excel spreadsheet by squeak

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cardenas]

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Hi,

Diego Gómez-Deck wrote a OpenOffice importer for Squeak some time ago (I
don't have the link, but you can search about it). So a possible way
could be OpenOffice importing of the excel files and then use the Diego
code to open it in Squeak.

Cheers,

Offray

johnps11 at bigpond.com wrote:
>> The new XML based format may be easier to parse / write using YAXO
> 
> As someone who has done this stuff (though not from Squeak), Good Luck
> with OOXML.  It's very fragile, and appears to break for no apparent
> reason.  I suggest you either use a library (as others have suggested) or
> use Oo.org as a conversion engine, and work with the XML in that format,
> then use OO.org again to write back to excel.  The degree of success you
> will get with any approach will be inversely related to the documents
> complexity - complex excel documents get very wierd with anything but
> Visual Basic (which is wierd to begin with).
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> On 9/6/07, David Mitchell <david.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nothing that directly reads/writes the file format. Mostly, I've seen
>>> CSV, clipboard, and discussion of XML.
>>>
>>> There is a .net bridge that you could use to VBA but that would
>>> require Excel to be running.
>>>
>>> The fastest route would be to find a C library and then call it.
>>>
>>> On 9/6/07, Xinyu Liu <liuxinyu95 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Can I use squeak to create, write, and read excel spreadsheet?
>>>> Just like ParseExcel and WriteExcel module in PERL.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards.
>>>> Liu
>>>>
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