C++ and Excel

[Robert Sherry]

I am writing some software to keep track of Excel files. At the moment,
the software does not look inside the Excel file. I would like to know, are
there any class libraries that will enable me to access the contents of an
Excel file. Is the internal format of an Excel file even documented?

Robert Sherry

 

[Victor Bazarov]

I am writing some software to keep track of Excel files. At the moment,
the software does not look inside the Excel file. I would like to know, are
there any class libraries that will enable me to access the contents of an
Excel file. Is the internal format of an Excel file even documented?

You might want to also ask in a newsgroup for MS Office programming, like
microsoft.public.office.developer.*, there seems to be a forum dedicated
to your question: microsoft.public.office.developer.finary.file_format...

V

 

[Brian]

I am writing some software to keep track of Excel files. At the moment,
the software does not look inside the Excel file. I would like to know, are
there any class libraries that will enable me to access the contents of an
Excel file. Is the internal format of an Excel file even documented?

Robert Sherry

Have you located this info yet? I remember finding a site quite
a while ago, with many different file formats (including Excel).
If you still need it I'll try to find it again.

Brian

 

[Jonny Iversen]

You can access exceldata through the ODBC API as MS has an ODBC driver for
it.