RE: API to Excel Workbook file

[Nelson Wong <Nelson@...>]

Title: RE: API to Excel Workbook file

Rick,

 

I think you are suggesting is to simply parse a file using Lua I/O facilities. Thank you very much for the suggestion, in fact, I do not prefer to do parsing, since the xls file might be modified very often. To do parsing every single time when the xls file is changed, that would be aweful!!!

 

Nelson 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Simmons [mailto:ricks@artifact-entertainment.com]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:58 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: API to Excel Workbook file

Hi Nelson,

If you're looking for the easiest way (reference: "easiest way or not,but at least, that is the only solution"), you might want to perform an ASCII export from Excel and then access the file using LUA IO facilities.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
[mailto:owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]On Behalf Of nerurin@hotmail.com
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:46 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: API to Excel Workbook file

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone has implemented the APIs using ADO to access data
from a Excel workbook file (.xls) file.
For my own interests, I just want to find out the way to use Lua to
acess a data source (Namely, Excel Workbook file) for prototyping AI
concepts.
I am trying make Lua to be able to access .xls file using the APIs
(implemented in C/C++ using ADO) with toLua. I'm not sure whether it
is the easiest way or not,but at least, that is the only solution I
can think of now.

Any comment or suggestion?

Thanks,
Nelson