On 01/10/2013 13:15, John Lee wrote: > Thanks - as you say (with nice irony) it isn't a simple format, and I > don't pretend to understand it, indeed it is 'doing my head in' - but > I don't want to write .xls or do charts etc, just read some cells (only > in in excel 2003, seems to be v11 according to help) - maybe my hope of > a few lines, with one or two units 'used', isn't possible but there seem > to be millions of lines here. Is there an example of reading cells from > named spread that you could point to?
In case you hadn't found it: examples here http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPSpreadsheet Excel 2003 .xls format is AFAIU BIFF8 as well. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal