Re: Reading Excel or Libreoffice files

[luciano de souza <luchyanus@...>]

Yes, I found the data in sharedstrings.xml, but parse it, regarding my
few experience, it's now
inviable.
If there is no a Lua module to read xlsx, it will be more realistic to
use Pascal for this purpose.

2016-12-26 22:10 GMT-02:00, Erik Hougaard <erik@hougaard.com>:
> 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.
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Luciano de Souza