spreadsheet-0.6.4.1 Documentation

Last Update: 17.09.2009, 16.32 - hwyss

spreadsheet.rubyforge.org scm.ywesee.com/spreadsheet

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www.spreadsheet.ch

Description

The Spreadsheet Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Documents. As of version 0.6.0, only Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheets are supported. Spreadsheet is a combination/complete rewrite of the Spreadsheet::Excel Library by Daniel J. Berger and the ParseExcel Library by Hannes Wyss. Spreadsheet can read, write and modify Spreadsheet Documents.

What’s new?

Significantly improved memory-efficiency when reading large Excel Files
Limited Spreadsheet modification support
Improved handling of String Encodings

Roadmap

0.7.0:	Improved Format support/Styles
0.7.1:	Document Modification: Formats/Styles
0.8.0:	Formula Support
0.8.1:	Document Modification: Formulas
0.9.0:	Write-Support: BIFF5
1.0.0:	Ruby 1.9 Support; Remove backward compatibility code

Dependencies

ruby 1.8
Iconv
ruby-ole

Examples

Have a look at the GUIDE.

Installation

Using RubyGems:

sudo gem install spreadsheet

If you don’t like RubyGems, let me know which installation solution you prefer and I’ll include it in the future.

Authors

Original Code:

License

This library is distributed under the GPLv3. Please see the LICENSE file.