i am doing a project that has some simple values(login,password,name,age). I was searching on the internet how to create an excel file on Visual C++, and i cant undestand it . I just want the simple way, i just want to see on my excel files 2 colums one having some login codes of my program and on the other the passwords. My programing level its not really high and im not an english speaker, so id like you guys to explain a bit or give me something simple.
Thanks for your time
If all you want is a simple file with 2 columns of data, I'd make a CSV (Comma Seperated Values) file, which can be opened in Excel, or any text editor. The CSV will look "nice" in Excel, as if it were an actual XLS file. Also, you won't be tied to Microsoft Office. This file can be written with simple string manipulations and file I/O.
The format would be :
Column1,Column2
data1,data2
data3,data4
However, and this is a big one... storing usernames and passwords in plain text is never a good idea.
Maybe there is some code from this web site that can help you out. It seems well documented and it was made for people to learn from it.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15837/Accessing-Excel-Spreadsheets-via-C
Hope that helps!
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Sorry this is my first post on here. I am very new to c++. I am currently working on a small project which requires reading data from a .csv file, searching for specific words and then writing all the lines that contain the specific word to they're own .csv file. I will be honest and say I am out of my depth when it comes to classes etc which is why I am asking you good people on here if you would have or know of any examples of this type of problem for me to try to understand it.
Thanks for anything at all!
Jay
I was given the task to convert great amount of RTF tables into XML ones (around or way more than 100.000), but I have no idea how to even start it and i cannot get help from the lead developer, because ironically he had never written a line of code.
I was thinking about c++ as I need t to be fast, but I'm open to any ideas.
What I need is some information I can start the project with or any library/program I could use for my help, thank you.
EDIT: I have XSD schemas to work with.
Found the solution after looking for a while. I can use LibreOffice to save it as html or other various forms that will keep the table as it is and also give a clear code i can pull an XSD on to make it valid also.
I am a beginner in visual studio and has only code C and C++ in command line settings.
Currently, I am taking a module(software development) which requires me to come up with an expense tracker - a program which helps user tracks his/her daily expenses. Therefore, at the end of each individual day, or after a user uses finishes the program, we would have to perform data storage to store all the info in one place which we would export it during the next usage.
My constraint include not using any relational database(although i have no idea what it is :( ). Data storage must be done using XML or text files. Following this, I have several questions regarding data storage:
1) If data is stored successfully, do we export it everytime we start the program? And everytime after the user closes the program, we overwrite the existing data file and then store it accordingly?
2) I have heard from some people that using text file may be easier. Searching on the internet and library only provides me with information regarding XML and not text. Would anyone be able to help me with it? Like tutorials link and stuff?
Thank you very much!
File writing/handling works similar to every other buffer in c++.
you can enable file handling using the fstream header. You can create a file, write to it and over-write every time the program is run, or can even create a file the first time the program is run and then append to it every subsequent time the program runs.
Ive only ever done text files, never tried XML, but Im guessing they're similar.
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/ should give you everything you need to know.
Your choice of XML vs plain text depends on the kind of data that you'll be storing.
The reason why you'll only find XML libraries on the internet is because XML is a lot more complicated than plain text. If you don't know what XML is or if the data that you're storing isn't very complex, then I would suggest going with plain text.
For example, to track expenses, you might store a file like this:
sandwich 5.00
coffee 2.30
soft drink 1.50
...
It's very easy to read/write lines like this to/from a file in C++.
I was wondering how difficult it would be to make an application like this. Basically, I have some old html files that use tables. I want to put these tables into excel for easier reading and manipulation. I only have text, I have no numbers of formulas or anything.
Are there any tutorials on how to do this sort of thing?
The application would produce .xls
Thanks
You have three options:
Output a CSV file. While not an XLS file, Excel is more than capable of opening such a file, and it's extremely easy to create. You need nothing more than standard C++ to implement this solution. This is by far the easiest and quickest way to output to Excel (or any spreadsheet program, for that matter).
Use OLE automation. Microsoft even has a Knowledge Base article that provides an example of how to invoke Excel from your native C++ application and fill in some values. If you absolutely need to output XLS files, this is the easiest way to go. Note that users must have Excel installed on their computers for this to work.
Create your own XLS writer. Don't even bother with this option unless you really want to generate XLS files without requiring Excel to be installed on end-user computers. Options 1 and 2 are more than good enough for just about any application.
You don't need to reverse-engineer the XLS format; Microsoft documents the excel file format here. Due to the evolution of Excel over the years, it's not exactly a clean specification.
If you don't mind installing a copy of Excel along with your program, using OLE Automation would be much easier.
The simplest thing to do is simply create a CSV file. If you have column headers, put them in the first row. CSV files can be opened natively in Excel as if they were Excel spreadsheets.
There is a trick here: save .html tables with the .xls extension and Excel can read them (ie Excel can read the output of the DataGrid control).
But, if you want to create 'real' Excel files, then you can either use Excel Interop (which could be messy, requires Excel and the PIA's to be installed on the machine, and needs careful memory management (since its COM)). You could also opt for a 3rd-party library like FlexCel - which will avoid many of the InterOp problems but will not give you 'complete' Excel functionality (addins, custom vba macros etc.). For most uses, however, a 3rd party library should do the trick.
Looks like there's another alternative called ExcelFormat. I didn't try it, though.
How can i make user to downlaoad a excel from the django app.i HAVE A MODEL WHICH gives the report.Now i want a option from user can download the file in excel form.ANy Solution
You can output the data as .csv which is easily imported into MS Excel.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/outputting-csv/
EDIT
After I wrote that I got curious if there actually was some way to do it directly to excel format and found:
http://www.python-excel.org/
That made me wonder why you didn't google your question before posted it here.....
I'm not sure quite what you're asking. If you're asking how can you generate output that's able to be read into Excel, IMO your best bet is using a CSV (see amoeba's response) as that's pretty generic. There are ways of using true Excel formats as well.
I'm thinking though that perhaps you're asking how you can have a user click a link (or whatever) and have Excel pop up with your data in it? (IOW, you've already generated the output).
I suppose I'd say a few things:
1) It shouldn't be specific to Excel, many users use things like OO.o (thus my CSV suggestion)
2) It's going to vary depending on their browser and how they have it set up. Personally, I don't like pages opening up the "proper application" so I turn all of that off - other people enable it.