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mackenga · May 2nd, 2005, 10:24 AM

I'm not sure of the details of the XLS format, but I do know that Excel can save in other formats. I believe it can handle CSV, which might be worth a look as it's extremely easy to parse. You'd have to get users to export to something other than XLS to do this, but it might well prove to be worth it.

May 2nd, 2005, 10:24 AM	#4
mackenga Professional Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 317 Rep Power: 4	I'm not sure of the details of the XLS format, but I do know that Excel can save in other formats. I believe it can handle CSV, which might be worth a look as it's extremely easy to parse. You'd have to get users to export to something other than XLS to do this, but it might well prove to be worth it.