Re: API to Excel Workbook file

[Renato Cerqueira <rcerq@...>]

On Friday 05 October 2001 15:46, you wrote:
> 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

Hi,

You can try LuaCom. It is a binding between Lua and COM...
You can download it from
   http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~rcerq/luacom/
(it includes source and binary distributions)

It comes with an example that shows how to access the ADO interface
from Lua.

Regards,
Renato