Philip Nienhuis wrote: > Subject says /almost/ all. > > I've added some scripts to the IO package for writing ODS spreadsheet > files using the java package and ODF toolkit. (Preliminary support using > jOpenDocument (also java-based) is also included but yet only of limited > use.) > Reading ODS was already possible. > > As it stands it works fairly reliably but the underlying java stuff may > be a bit fragile on Windows (see other posting). On Linux I didn't hit > any problems yet. > > An issue to be aware of is that ODS has dedicated value types for dates > and times, while octave has not. This is quite unlike Excel spreadsheets > where dates are essentially numerical data formatted as dates. > Reading data/time from ODS spreadsheets is OK (they are converted to > octave datenums) but for the other way round there is no reliable solution. > Actually I did implement writing dates to ODS (that's just 10 lines of > code) but as there's no way yet to distinguish numerical data and > date/time data in an octave cell array that code is currently a bit > pointless. > > Anyway, as far as spreadsheet processing goes I suppose octave is > presently a bit more advanced than the competition ;-)
Would you agree if I included it in the upcoming 3.2.4 octave/mingw32 installer? I will also include the recent SVN versions of the windows and java packages as suggested previously on the list somewhere. benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
