On Nov 4, 2007 5:56 PM, Nico Heinze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please don't beat me for this suggestion, but why reinvent the wheel?
> There are fairly good Java classes available (if I recall correctly,
> the stuff is named POI) to extract all sorts of information from Excel
> sheets (in fact from all sorts of MS Office documents). Then just
> interface the Java classes with your C/C++ code using JNI (Java Native
> Invocation), and off you go.
>
> Is this sort of homework? Otherwise I would strongly suggest to take a
> look at this approach, even though it's not C/C++ centric.
>
> Just another funny idea from the old wannabe know-it-all.
For that matter, ActiveState Perl has classes for accessing COM
objects and, I believe, also has classes for digging deeper into
Excel.
The right tool for the right job...
-- Brett
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