From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.186.105 with SMTP id fj9mr9827873obc.5.1384859648453; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:14:08 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.246.72 with SMTP id xu8mr254824obc.15.1384859648286; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:14:08 -0800 (PST) Path: border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!dz2no1122680qab.0!news-out.google.com!9ni36578qaf.0!nntp.google.com!dz2no1122670qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:14:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <85zjp1wyh6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=109.120.13.91; posting-account=6GI17woAAACzaU4npPx-Wjpke4_Fq0uj NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.120.13.91 References: <86e3a757-5cc2-4ea6-92f1-8b7ce369a5f2@googlegroups.com> <85zjp1wyh6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada Spreadsheet output From: Serge Mosin Injection-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:14:08 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183932 Date: 2013-11-19T03:14:08-08:00 List-Id: On Monday, November 18, 2013 9:55:49 PM UTC+7, Stephen Leake wrote: > Serge Mosin writes: > > > > > Thanks for the reply, Jeffrey. MS Excel is not preferred and ODBC > > > usage is probably possible only with simple structured spreadsheet > > > tables (key-value ones), but I have a very complex type of structure, > > > so it seems that I need to find a solution by myself. > > > > Do you need to output equations, or just data? > > > > Data can be handled by comma separated values, which are trivial to > > write. > > > > When entering data, if you start with "=", it becomes an equation; does > > that work for csv import as well? I haven't tried it. > > > > -- > > -- Stephe I need to output simple data, but it has a complex cell structure. I beleive, CSV files are similar to using ODBC interface, where I only can have simple key-valued files, which is not enough in my situation.