I am trying to locate a set of source code that would allow me to open and read the contents of an Excel file on Linux from within a C program.
I dont really want to link it to OpenOffice SDK if I can find something that just does these two things.
carl
If following suites you, then You may take read routines from
Sourceforge
and write routines from
What is a simple and reliable C library for working with Excel files?
As far as I know there is no library that does this. The common method is always to save the file as CVS in Excel, although then markup etc. is lost.
You could try to use the Excel plugin of Gnumeric:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnumeric/trunk/plugins/excel/
It works very well (inside gnumeric).
You can use xlhtml to convert the Excel files into HTML, and then use your favorite HTML parser to extract the cell data.
Check out the answers to What is the best C library that can access Excel files?
Possible things for you to look at:
Though I think both are write-only, which is perhaps not what you need.
Grab the xls reading code from Open Office.
why don't you just use Google Docs? With Gears it has offline support and you can edit files too, just a thought - http://docs.google.com
Check out XLSX I/O at https://sourceforge.net/projects/xlsxio/ It is a cross platform C library to read from and write to Excel .xslx files. Works on Windows, OS X, Linux and does not require Excel or Office to be installed. It is intended for sequential access to data in .xlsx files, so if it's only the values you are interested in this is what you need.
