From: Chilkat Software <support@...>
Date: 2006-11-05T23:12:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing .xml files through rubyzip


My questions would be:

1) Assuming you have the .xls file in-memory, how do you load it
into the win32OLE object and what format does the data have to be in-memory?
In other words: do you need a VARIANT or a byte array/"string"?

2) Forgetting about the zip issue for a moment: is it even possible to load
a .xls into an Excel win32OLE object from memory or must it first be written
to a file?

I don't have these answers, but answering these questions is what you first
need to do...

-Matt


At 08:00 AM 11/5/2006, you wrote:


>Graham Stokes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone please suggest an approach for handling a .zip archive which
> > contains .xls files ? I want to process the .xls files in turn on the
> > fly as win32OLE objects to extract cell data and create new charts. Of
> > course I can do it the long way and just unzip everything first, but I
> > wonder if there is a neat way of marrying the ZIP and win32OLE objects
> > so that I can process a directory of zipped and unzipped files "in-line"
> > so the code doesn't have to break stride to uncompress things. Any ideas
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Graham Stokes
> >
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>Check the Ruby standard libraries. I know this is possible in Python -
>reading a zip file on the fly and processing its contents. Saw a recipe
>for it in the Python Cookbook. Something similar is likely to be there
>in Ruby's libs. Try checking the Ruby Cookbook too - both the official
>one from O'Reilly, and Ryan Davis' (incomplete) one at zenspider.com.
>
>HTH
>Vasudev
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