From: Corey Lawson <corey.ssf.lawson@...>
Date: 2007-12-30T06:49:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-ole-1.2.3 released!

On 12/28/07, Charles Lowe <aquasync@gmail.com> wrote:
> Junkone wrote:
> > On Dec 28, 7:16�am, Charles Lowe <aquas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> - MBAT write support re-implmented (for saving large OLE files).
> >> - Minor fixes and better test coverage.
> >> - Initial (read-only) property set support.
> >> - Optimizations from benchmarks and profiling, mostly for writes.
> >> --
> >> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
> > can it open a excel file and save as csv.
>
> No, its just an implementation of the underlying file format - just a
> container like a zip file (though without compression). See the
> parseexcel library for that purpose.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

You could use this, however, to get the XBIFFx chunk (this is the
format for the junk in the spreadsheet) from the compound document
container. At the worst case, in the past the XBIFFx definitions etc
have been made available on MSDN, so you would just need to develop a
converter.

(the 'x' is the version of Excel that is ref'd. XBIFF4 = Excel 4.0,
XBIFF5 = Excel 5, and so on).