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Q&A How to create and manipulate (read/write) Excel (XLSX) documents with complex rules using general programming languages?

All of these projects use Microsoft's OpenXML SDK for Office behind the scenes: 1. .NET (F#, C#) The F# Guide recommends NPOI, which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but the...

posted 6mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by toraritte‭

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#3: Post edited by user avatar toraritte‭ · 2023-11-11T22:39:46Z (6 months ago)
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  • All of these projects use Microsoft's [OpenXML SDK for Office](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/open-xml-sdk) behind the scenes:
  • ### 1. [.NET](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/) (F#, C#)
  • The [F# Guide](https://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/#excel-interop) recommends [NPOI][1], which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but there are others as well ([ClosedXML](https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML), [EPPlus](https://github.com/EPPlusSoftware/EPPlus)).
  • ### 2. Elixir
  • + [`elixlsx`][2] seems to be only for manipulating existing Excel files and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/elixlsx/readme.html) is very sparse.
  • + [`xlsxir`][3] on the other hand appears to be the full package and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/xlsxir/overview.html) is in a somewhat better shape.
  • [1]: https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi
  • [2]: https://github.com/xou/elixlsx
  • [3]: https://github.com/jsonkenl/xlsxir
  • All of these projects use Microsoft's [OpenXML SDK for Office](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/open-xml-sdk) behind the scenes:
  • ### 1. [.NET](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/) (F#, C#)
  • The [F# Guide](https://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/#excel-interop) recommends [NPOI][1], which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but there are others as well ([ClosedXML](https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML), [EPPlus](https://github.com/EPPlusSoftware/EPPlus)).
  • ### 2. Elixir
  • + [`elixlsx`][2] seems to be only for manipulating existing Excel files and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/elixlsx/readme.html) is very sparse.
  • + [`xlsxir`][3] on the other hand appears to be the full package and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/xlsxir/overview.html) is in a somewhat better shape.
  • ### 3. Python
  • + `openpyxl`\
  • There is a great guide by Real Python:[A Guide to Excel Spreadsheets in Python With `openpyxl`](https://realpython.com/openpyxl-excel-spreadsheets-python/).
  • + [`xlwings`](https://www.xlwings.org/)
  • > INFO\
  • > Requires Excel to be installed. See `xlwings`'s [install docs](https://docs.xlwings.org/en/stable/installation.html).
  • [1]: https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi
  • [2]: https://github.com/xou/elixlsx
  • [3]: https://github.com/jsonkenl/xlsxir
#2: Post edited by user avatar toraritte‭ · 2023-11-10T14:35:28Z (6 months ago)
  • All of these projects use Microsoft's [OpenXML SDK for Office](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/open-xml-sdk) behind the scenes:
  • ### 1. [.NET](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/) (F#, C#)
  • The [F# Guide](https://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/#excel-interop) recommends [NPOI][1], which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but there are others as well ([ClosedXML](https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML), [EPPlus](https://github.com/EPPlusSoftware/EPPlus)).
  • ### 2. Elixir
  • + [**elixlsx**: An Elixir XLSX writer][2]
  • + [**xlsxir**: Xlsx parser for the Elixir language.][3]
  • [`elixlsx`][2] seems to be only for manipulating existing Excel files and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/elixlsx/readme.html) is very sparse.
  • [`xlsxir`][3] on the other hand seems to be the full package and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/xlsxir/overview.html) is in a somewhat better shape.
  • [1]: https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi
  • [2]: https://github.com/xou/elixlsx
  • [3]: https://github.com/jsonkenl/xlsxir
  • All of these projects use Microsoft's [OpenXML SDK for Office](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/open-xml-sdk) behind the scenes:
  • ### 1. [.NET](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/) (F#, C#)
  • The [F# Guide](https://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/#excel-interop) recommends [NPOI][1], which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but there are others as well ([ClosedXML](https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML), [EPPlus](https://github.com/EPPlusSoftware/EPPlus)).
  • ### 2. Elixir
  • + [`elixlsx`][2] seems to be only for manipulating existing Excel files and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/elixlsx/readme.html) is very sparse.
  • + [`xlsxir`][3] on the other hand appears to be the full package and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/xlsxir/overview.html) is in a somewhat better shape.
  • [1]: https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi
  • [2]: https://github.com/xou/elixlsx
  • [3]: https://github.com/jsonkenl/xlsxir
#1: Initial revision by user avatar toraritte‭ · 2023-11-10T14:27:04Z (6 months ago)
All of these projects use Microsoft's [OpenXML SDK for Office](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/open-xml-sdk) behind the scenes:

### 1. [.NET](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/) (F#, C#)

The [F# Guide](https://fsharp.org/guides/data-science/#excel-interop) recommends [NPOI][1], which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but there are others as well ([ClosedXML](https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML), [EPPlus](https://github.com/EPPlusSoftware/EPPlus)).

### 2. Elixir

+ [**elixlsx**: An Elixir XLSX writer][2]
+ [**xlsxir**: Xlsx parser for the Elixir language.][3]

[`elixlsx`][2] seems to be only for manipulating existing Excel files and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/elixlsx/readme.html) is very sparse.

[`xlsxir`][3] on the other hand seems to be the full package and [its documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/xlsxir/overview.html) is in a somewhat better shape.

[1]: https://github.com/nissl-lab/npoi
[2]: https://github.com/xou/elixlsx
[3]: https://github.com/jsonkenl/xlsxir