Thanks all for the suggestions.
In fact I found that although the docs for xlsx (aka OpenXML aka ECMA-376 aka
ISO/IEC 29500) are a dense nightmare*, simply taking a close look at the
format shows it's pretty simple to parse by reading the files directly, at
least for my needs (just text and other literal values, in some cases with
style, not caring about formulas, charts etc).
(If I wanted a more straightforward life, and was prepared to do some manual
work on each file before processing it, and I/my client didn't have concerns
about sharing internal data with Google, I did before getting this far
establish that the easiest solution would be to import the spreadsheet into
Google Sheets, which has a nice straightforward API for getting the data.)
So, thanks all - and if a visitor from the future is reading this thread
because they have a similar requirement, my suggestion is to either run it
through Google Sheets, or hack the xslx directly.
Ben
*Part 1 of the reference is a 5,036 page document. I didn't bother downloading
the following parts...
On 16/01/2018 21:55, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote:
Matthias, if by tooltip, you meant the comment associated to a cell,
yes this is something potentially possible, too.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:52 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
As i wrote “ at least i am not aware of it” ;)
good to know. That this is possible.
Btw.: Do you know if it is also possible to read/get the tooltip of a cell of
better said of a range of cells?
Regards
Matthias
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Am 16.01.2018 um 21:32 schrieb zryip theSlug via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>:
In the Excel Lib, the command XCEL_Range_FontStyle_Get is returning
the style of the whole cell or range. We have no function to read the
style of each char, at this moment.
However, both VBA and AppleScript are offering this possibility, so
this is a function we can add. A possible solution would consist to
explore the style of each chars in a cell, then return the result in
html to have it directly usable in LiveCode. I'm not sure of the
performances of this approach, though. It will depend on how many
cells the sheet have and how many text each cells are containing.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
Ben,
i am uising Spreadlib and Excel Libary. Both do not take care for text format.
At least i am not aware of it.
Regards,
Matthias
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<https://matthiasrebbe.eu/>>
Am 16.01.2018 um 19:10 schrieb Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>>:
I'm aware that there are a couple of libraries floating around for reading
Excel documents - do any of them allow the formatting of runs of text within
cells to be read? I want to import some data where some of the text in a cell
may contain some parts which are in italics or bold. Are there existing
libraries that support this use?
Many thanks,
Ben
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