How to read a Excel file in Ada?

Question

I did a search on google, looking for some lib. to read excel files in Ada, but found nothing ... Anyone know any lib. or any way to read these files? I just know a method to create the files, but to read, I find nothing ...

Answer 1

There is now an Excel Reader @ this site. This for the .xlsx format, which is actually a .zip containing .xml's, and probably what you are looking for.

Note that the Excel Writer project mentioned above uses an old binary format (BIFF) but provides a tool to read contents (of this same old binary format): biff_dump.

Answer 2

Possibly worth looking at:

http://excel-writer.sf.net

for writing Excel files; I haven't looked at it to see if it also provides read facilities.

Answer 3

I don't know of a ready to use library to do it, but the parts are available:

Use Zip-Ada to unpack the .xlsx file and XML/Ada to parse the unpacked contents.