Reading directly from Excel

[Ralph DiMola]

I just wrote a program in VB6 the other day to read an Excel spreadsheet and
update a MySql database. It was easy until I needed to "get char 3 of word 5
of line 2 of var" and then I got a headache. I would also LOVE to use LC for
these type of things. I thought about exporting to a csv and using LC but it
was too messy. I also remember that Curry Kenworth was working on a
solution. I wonder what the status of that project is?

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:33 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Reading directly from Excel

Is there any way to read in cells directly from an Excel spreadsheet (not
CSV)?

Would make my life on my current project a lot easier if I could!  If not, I
guess I could always write a command line script that would covert it over
to CSV before manipulating it in LC.

Just thought I would ask before going down that road.

SKIP
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