xls

Crystal bindings to libxls to read old Excel files (.xls)

Installation

  1. Install libxls

  2. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

    dependencies:
  xls:
    github: mdwagner/xls.cr
    version: 0.4.1

  3. Run shards install

Usage

require "xls"

# Simple example of usage
Xls::Spreadsheet.open(Path.new("./example.xls")) do |s|
  skip_first_ws_puts = true

  s.worksheets.each do |ws|
    puts unless skip_first_ws_puts
    puts "Sheet: #{ws.name}"
    skip_first_row_puts = true

    ws.rows.each_with_index do |row, row_index|
      puts unless skip_first_row_puts
      puts "Row: #{row_index + 1}"

      row.cells.each_with_index do |cell, cell_index|
        puts "Cell: #{cell_index + 1}, Value: #{cell.value}"
      end

      skip_first_row_puts = false
    end

    skip_first_ws_puts = false
  end
end

Look at examples/ folder for more examples of different usage.

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