C program to read excel file

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Is there any way to create a C program to read excel file?

Posted 6-Apr-11 4:32am

rupeshkp728

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Rick Shaub 6-Apr-11 11:50am

Could you list the development environment and some information about the environment this program will run on? Information such as operating system, whether or not office is installed. Also, versioning information, i.e. Windows XP with Office 2007, etc.

rupeshkp728 6-Apr-11 15:01pm

Thanks Rick for the reply.
Its C on Windows Vista/XP with Visual Studio 2005 and Office 2003 installed

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2011-04-06T08:47:00

Solution 1

Is there any way to create a C program to read excel file?
Yes!

Now, since you know it can be, we hope you will be back with an issue when you try to do the same.

Posted 6-Apr-11 8:47am

Sandeep Mewara

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rupeshkp728 6-Apr-11 15:00pm

what is the way?

Albert Holguin 8-Apr-11 16:03pm

you have to at least try to get people to want to help you

Stephen Wiria · Answer 2 · 2011-04-19T23:41:00

Solution 2

Try this: DispHelper[^]

Put a value into column 4 row 10:

MIDL

dhPutValue(xlSheet, L".Cells(%d,%d) = %s", 10, 4, szCellText);

Posted 19-Apr-11 23:41pm

Stephen Wiria

Updated 20-Apr-11 4:08am

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Nish Nishant · Answer 3 · 2011-04-20T04:10:00

Excel exposes a COM API, so you could use that from C. But unelss your COM skills are exceptionally good, it will be a very difficult task. It would be far easier to do this from C++ or even C# (via interop).

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Guess what? Turns out Excel has a C API (no need to go the COM route).

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687829.aspx[^]

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A quick read indicates that maybe it's more for writing faster functions, so it's probably not stand-alone. So while you can use that, you'd probably still need to use COM.