From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2002-11-28T15:00:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Spreadsheet/Excel 0.0.1

Hi sir Dan (aka Daniel Berger [mailto:djberg96@hotmail.com]):

You announced:
 
> I am happy to announce that Spreadsheet/Excel 0.0.1 has been 
> released into 
> the wild!
> 
> Spreadsheet/Excel allows you to programatically generate MS 
> Excel compatable 
> files on any platform.  Gnumeric is also capable of reading the files 
> generted by this module.
> 
> This is a port of version .21 of John McNamara's 
> Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 
> Perl module.
> 
> Synopsis
> --------
> require "spreadsheet/excel"
> include Spreadsheet
> 
> wb = Excel.new("test.xls")
> ws1 = wb.add_worksheet('Test')
> ws2 = wb.add_worksheet
> ws1.write(0,0,"Hello")
> ws2.write(2,3,8888)
> wb.close
> 
> Future Plans
> ------------
> Formats
> Formulas
> Speed increases
> 
> Home page http://rubyspreadsheet.sourceforge.net

Great Scott! This is even a lot better than vba programming inside excel.

Many thanks, Dan. I'll keep myself posted :-)
 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Dan

Best regards,
-botp