Reading spreadsheets

Nick Levine nick at nicklevine.org
Wed May 22 18:02:57 UTC 2019


So much advice. Thanks, all. 

- nick

> On 22 May 2019, at 18:53, Geoffrey Teale <tealeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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