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Sweet! A few years ago I had to write a bunch of JavaScript code for manipulating Excel spreadsheets running in the Windows Scripting Host environment (https://
by gliese1337 13y ago
Sweet! A few years ago I had to write a bunch of JavaScript code for manipulating Excel spreadsheets running in the Windows Scripting Host environment (https://github.com/gliese1337/PhoneReport); https://github.com/gliese1337/PhoneReport); WSH exposes an API for poking Excel from JScript, so I used that, but it makes the code very non-portable- it'll only run on Windows machines with IE and MSExcel installed. This could be really useful for genericizing it. Does it support writing Excel files, or just reading?
- sheetjs 13y agoRight now it's just reading. My approach is to attack reading first because it is the harder problem (and exposes more features that need to be represented in the internal format). Once I'm confident I've covered what needs to be represented, then writing is easy. Honestly, the biggest challenge here is trying to understand the full scope of the problem -- its huge!