Reading spreadsheets

Geoffrey Teale tealeg at gmail.com
Wed May 22 17:53:04 UTC 2019


I wrote a whole library for Golang that reads/writes Microsoft ODX XLSX, if
you don't need to go down that route, I'd avoid it.  Grabbing JSON from
google seams like a way simpler way to process data.
-- 
tealeg

On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 16:46, William Lederer <william.lederer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wrote a hack to pull information from an excel xslx sheet. I used a
> couple of libraries pulled from quicklisp, first to unzip the file, then to
> xml-parse it. The specific trick is to decode the document from the word
> indexes for the shared strings.  So if you can save the google sheet as an
> excel, this technique would work.
>
> wglb
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:36 AM Nick Levine <nick at nicklevine.org> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried reading a google spreadsheet from lisp (Allegro)?
>> Searching produced a couple of libraries for this, and neither of them
>> compiled cleanly (which is not where I wanted to spend my morning).
>>
>> - nick
>>
>
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