Re: Reading Excel or Libreoffice files

[Erik Hougaard <erik@...>]

On 25-12-2016 03:25, luciano de souza wrote:
> I want to deal with Excel or Libreoffice files.
> I found the package xlsxwriter, available as a rock.
> But I could not find something to read a xls, xlsx or ods files. I am
> in Linux, so I can't use luacom. I have few experience, so perhaps to
> understand the xml structure of a xlsx file would not be viable.
> Regarding this aspects, what do you think it's the best approach for me?
I'm always using OpenXML to manipulate .xlsx files (they are in reality 
a zip files with a bunch of xml files). You can just unzip the xlsx 
file, manipulate the xml and zip the result back into a xlsx file.

/Erik