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Re: write data to an excell file [message #42472]

Wed, 09 February 2005 12:14

Jonathan Greenberg
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Is there a reason you are bothering to write directly to XLS file? Just
write a .csv or .txt (Dave Fanning has a nice little program to do this for
you, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel:
http://www.dfanning.com/tip_examples/write_csv_data.pro) A .csv file, in
fact, you can just double click from a PC or Mac and Excel is usually set to
just open it right up.

--j

On 2/9/05 10:29 AM, in article
Pine.OSX.4.61.0502091327350.20752@gouda.local, "Ken Mankoff"
<mankoff@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>> It looks to me that you are simply creating ASCII files with an
>> .xls extension. This really isn't an excel file. I have looked
>> into the .xls format in the past (it was called "biff" at one
>> point) hoping to create an IDL program that could write native
>> .xls files but I never found a published format.
>
> I think the best place to get this is through OpenOffice.org or
> StarOffice, or the other open source MS-Office-like apps that can
> read/write MS formats.
>
> -k.
> http://spacebit.dyndns.org/
>

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		Re: write data to an excell file By: Jonathan Greenberg on Wed, 09 February 2005 12:14
		Re: write data to an excell file By: KM on Wed, 09 February 2005 10:29
		Re: write data to an excell file By: Rick Towler on Wed, 09 February 2005 08:44
		Re: write data to an excell file By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 09 February 2005 08:33
		Re: write data to an excell file By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 09 February 2005 08:27
		Re: write data to an excell file By: Ralf Schaa on Fri, 11 February 2005 03:12

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