[fpc-pascal] Spreadsheet library/unit?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt writes:
> 
> > If buying is an option: You can buy FlexCel from TMS software.
> > It works with FPC/Lazarus.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> 75 EUR is a little steep for what will end up been an open source app.
> Specially since it will be a text based program. Will try the Lazarus
> component and if that doesn't work, will consider FlexCel. Also if I used
> FlexCel the program will pretty much never have other people work the project.
> Few people will pay that money so they could work on an open source project.

Well, that's why I said "If buying is an option"...

> 
> To those who mentioned CSV.... as I mentioned in my original post I am trying
> to create tabs. The ocassional conversion is fine with CSV, but when one has a
> process that needs to take multiple ASCII files and put it into a single
> spreadsheet on a regular bases, CSV is far from ideal.

If you ask me, it can't be hard to write the older text excel file format. 
See
http://chicago.sourceforge.net/devel/docs/excel/
or
http://chicago.sourceforge.net/
and
http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml/

Michael.