Read Excel file in Linux

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How would you go about to read data from excel file in Linux? Is there a C++ library I can use? I guess if the file is OOXML, I could treat it as such and use XPath on it??
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Posted 18-Oct-11 4:42am

VentsyV

Updated 16-May-16 5:11am

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Richard MacCutchan 18-Oct-11 12:00pm

I think that may be about your only option, unless Open Office has a supporting API that will read the pre XML versions.

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VentsyV · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-18T06:06:00

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Well, after some research - the excel file is in OOXML format. It's basically a zip file (that's right!) that contains a bunch of xml files, so I'll just unzip it and manipulate the xml files.

Posted 18-Oct-11 6:06am

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pkfox 11-Jun-16 7:27am

All the *.???x files are zip files