Reading directly from Excel

[Thomas Fischer]

Hi Skip,

reading my digests I came across your question (up to the suggestion to use SpreadlibBeta01).
If that doesn't work as hoped, did you consider using AppleScript to read the data from the Excel files? You would need a version of Excel, though, but then it works pretty smoothly (I just built a small AppleScript App to read data from Excel files).

Best
Thomas

Am 16.04.2013 um 19:00 schrieb use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com:

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:32:59 -0400
> From: Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Reading directly from Excel
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> 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