Re: [Haskell-cafe] COM and Haskell

I hate to recommend Java to Haskellers, but there is a project named Poi at Apache's Jakarta site[1] that will allow you to (with some Java programming) read, write, and manipulate Excel files directly. You don't have to COM to Excel, you don't even need Excel installed! Nice for producing spreadsheets for download from a web-based app on the fly. It is complete enough to do formatting, formulas, and such, but you can see the ugly internals of the Microsoft file formats bleeding out, or at least that was true 4 years ago. Maybe it would be a nice project to create a Haskell version of Poi. --doug [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ On 4/19/07, Paul Moore wrote:

On 19/04/07, Marc Weber wrote:

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There is only one library: hdirect. But I don't know its status there have been some posts and some authors may have chnaged it. I'd suggest grepping some mailinglist archives (you can find them all on haskell.org) or wait till someone else gives a more helpful reply ;)

I tried quite a while ago to build hdirect, and failed. It looked like it didn't quite support the then-current GHC (6.2???) As far as I can tell, the library hasn't been updated since, so I doubt there's much hope. I'd love to be proved wrong...

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If you application will be only small you'll be faster using VBScript.

Or Python or Perl, or (probably, I'm not sure) Ruby. Or likely many others.

Sad, but true...

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