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.xls data structure
Can someone post a link that describes excel's data structure? I'm trying to create a program that can manipulate excel spread sheets, but it might be likely that the software will become proprietary so I want to avoid using JXml/other open source libraries if possible.
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Re: .xls data structure
I would seriously look at an open source library to be honest, like Apache POI - Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files
Otherwise I guess you could have a look at [MS-XLS]: Excel Binary File Format (.xls) Structure Specification
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Re: .xls data structure
Hey helloworld,
Not sure if this will be useful or not?
http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...jdbc-java.html
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reabinvaniadE (August 22nd, 2009)
Re: .xls data structure
:O that is quite the data structure.
@Json: I would normally go for the open-source option, but this is for work and they don't really like open source.
@JavaPF: I think that would work. I'll try it out and see what happens. Now i've just got to learn SQL...
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