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On 2023-04-20 21:24, Gautier write-only address wrote:
>> G. de Montmollin has an Ada Excel writer, an Ada pkg for writing Excel files
>> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/excel-writer/). Presumably it could be
>> modified to read them.
> 
> Actually, it is a completely different job. Note that it is the case for many formats (think of HTML or XML for instance).

"Modified" was a poor choice of words. "Used to figure out how" is more what I 
had in mind.

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