c++ spreadsheet libraries?

[twoeyedhuman1111]

Does anyone know of any c++ libraries that can load some spreadsheet
from a file and manipulate it?

I'm making a simple address book so I can learn applications design and
I'm trying to store user data such as addresses and phone numbers etc.

 

[Al-Burak]

There are under UNI*X, but M$Win.... no, I don't think so.

 

[=?iso-8859-2?q?Mateusz_=A3oskot?=]

I'm making a simple address book so I can learn applications design and
I'm trying to store user data such as addresses and phone numbers etc.

Try sqlite, I think it will be good solution for your problem:
http://www.sqlite.org

Cheers

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Wirtel?=]

Does anyone know of any c++ libraries that can load some spreadsheet
from a file and manipulate it?

I'm making a simple address book so I can learn applications design and
I'm trying to store user data such as addresses and phone numbers etc.

You can use a CSV file to store your data, and with Excel or OpenOffice
Calc you can use it.

Regards,

Stephane

 

[Robbie Hatley]

Does anyone know of any c++ libraries that can load some spreadsheet
from a file and manipulate it?
I'm making a simple address book so I can learn applications design and
I'm trying to store user data such as addresses and phone numbers etc.

Using such libraries won't teach you application design.
Why not design your program using just C++ and the STL?
Create your own file format and save the data in that.
If you want GUI, get MS-VC++, read Petzold's "Programming
Windows", and learn Win32API. Then you'll have forced
yourself to design an app, pretty much from the ground
up. Finding some library that does most of the work
may speed design time, but will hardly serve to "teach
you to design apps".

Hint: there's something in the C++ STL called "multimap".
I think you'll find it very useful for phonebook design.

 

[Jim Langston]

Does anyone know of any c++ libraries that can load some spreadsheet
from a file and manipulate it?

I'm making a simple address book so I can learn applications design and
I'm trying to store user data such as addresses and phone numbers etc.

A simple array of structures would do this for you.

struct sAddress
{
std::string Name;
std::string Address1;
std::string Address2;
std::string City;
std::string State;
std::string Zipcode;
std::string Phone;
};

std::vector<sAddress> PhoneBook;

Read up on vectors. Read up on structures. Basically you can now build an
address object and populate it with information. Then "push" it onto the
vector.

Then read up on file IO to read from/write to a file.

This is what you need to learn, basic file IO, not using some library that
you're not going to learn a thing from.

 

[Andrew R]

Does anyone know of any c++ libraries that can load some spreadsheet
from a file and manipulate it?

I'm making a simple address book so I can learn applications design and
I'm trying to store user data such as addresses and phone numbers etc.

I agree with the other replies, that if you're learning to write Windows
applications then read Petzold, although I personally think 'Win32 Programming'
by Rector and Newcomer is far superior.

But basically forget the idea of reading spreadsheet data like out of a binary
..xls file - thats a deep exercise in file IO and binary file formats that
although its _really_ interesting doesn't sound like its what you want to achieve.

If you're trying to write a small app that reads XLS files directly (for
example) then look into COM programming. Of course, there is an argument that
for this problem domain you're better off with other technologies, like VB, C#,
or I know wxPython would do a good job of an address book that can interface to
Excel files (if you have Excel installed, naturally).

HTH