[erlang-questions] reading excel files in Erlang

[Kevin A. Smith]

Another possibility would be to use Apache POI (http:// 
poi.apache.org/) and JInterface.

--Kevin
On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Jan Jacobs wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Use ODBC,  it is the easiest way of getting data from excel files.
> See example below:
>
> ConnStr =
> "Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver
> (*.xls)};DriverId=790;Dbq=c:\\projects\\DeepBlue\\lib\\prototype\ 
> \ebin\\data\\Saco.xls;DefaultDir=c:\\projects\\DeepBlue\\lib\ 
> \prototype\\ebin\\data;",
>
> {ok,Ref} =  odbc:connect( ConnStr, [{timeout, 45000}] ),
> {selected, _ColData, DataList} =  odbc:sql_query( Ref, "SELECT * FROM
> [Query$];" ),
> process_cards( Tab, DataList ),
> odbc:disconnect( Ref )
>
> Important info from  http://www.connectionstrings.com/
>  Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver
> (*.xls)};DriverId=790;Dbq=C:\MyExcel.xls;DefaultDir=c:\mypath;
>  SQL syntax "SELECT * FROM [sheet1$]". I.e. excel worksheet name
> followed by a "$" and wrapped in "[" "]" brackets.
>
> Cheers
> Jan
>
> Michael Connors wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone know if there is an Erlang module for extracting data  
>> from
>> data from excel files?
>> I didn't find one on CEAN, but I am new to Erlang so could be looking
>> in the wrong place.
>>
>> Regards
>> -- 
>> Michael
>>
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