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Re: RPG and Excel

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First create the spreadsheet in Excel and define the table.
Then use the Klement stuff to find that spreadsheet and write the data into
the table of the spreadsheet, knowing it's row and column definitions
already.

I'll look into it. Thanks for the brainstorm.

If you're open to using other programming languages, it's much easier
than that. For example, I use Python and the XlsxWriter package.
Creating a table with that package is simply

worksheet.add_table('B3:F7')

or, if you have row and column numbers instead of "A1" cell addresses:

worksheet.add_table(2, 1, 6, 5)

You can populate the table cells one by one, row by row (using Python
array-like data structures), or all at once (using a two-dimensional
Python data structure).

Python and XlsxWriter are both free, and not hard to learn. You can
have them both installed on your i in half an hour, if you're slow.

John Y.

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