RE: API to Excel Workbook file

["Danilo Tuler de Oliveira" <tuler@...>]

Nelson,

You can take a look at http://www.users.waitrose.com/~winwood/
Maybe that's what you want.

-- Danilo


> 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!!!

>> 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

>>> 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