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Finally found a cross-platform Excel parsing library

João Antunes on September 15, 2018

Intro I know, I know, I’ve been living under a rock! The ExcelDataReader library has been there forever, but only recently I’ve came acr...
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jeikabu

Will have to check this out. I can't remember what we're using, I just know that I can't build it on OSX...

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João Antunes

This one I tested in MacOS and in a Docker container just to be on the safe side 🙂

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Tiago de Noronha

Thanks for the find!

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Praneet Nadkar

Thanks for the post. Good one!
I am curious, Open XML SDK does serve the same purpose, doesn't it?

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João Antunes

Hi Prannet!
I didn't try that one, maybe because I always looked just for Excel and not the open format.
From what I'm reading about it, it seems to be able to do the same and even more, so thank you for drawing my attention to it.
If this works cross-platform without weird external dependencies (most libraries I found didn't) it's another (maybe better) option.