LibXL is a library that can read and write Excel files. It doesn't require Microsoft Excel and .NET framework, combines an easy to use and powerful features. Library can be used to
Generate a new spreadsheet from scratch
Extract data from an existing spreadsheet
Edit an existing spreadsheet
LibXL can help your applications in exporting and extracting data to/from Excel files with minimum effort. Also it can be used as report engine. Library can be used in C, C++, C#, Delphi, Fortran and other languages. Supports Excel 97-2003 binary formats (xls) and Excel 2007-2013 xml formats (xlsx/xlsm). Supports Unicode and 64-bit platforms. There are a wrapper for .NET developers and separate Linux, Mac and iOS editions. See features of the library in demo.xls or demo.xlsx files.
Simple interoperate, no more Excel dependency
LibXL has C/C++ headers, Delphi unit and .NET assembly for including in your project. No OLE automation.
Customizing the look and feel
LibXL supports numerous formatting options: alignments, borders, colors, fill patterns, fonts, merging cells and so on.
High performance
Writing speed is about 2 100 000 cells per second for numbers and 240 000 cells per second for 8-character random strings in binary xls format (CPU 3.2 GHz).
Royalty-free distribution with your application
Our customers can use this library in theirs commercial applications without any fees.
Code example: generate a new spreadsheet from scratch
#include"libxl.h"using namespace libxl;
int main()
{
Book* book = xlCreateBook(); // xlCreateXMLBook() for xlsxif(book)
{
Sheet* sheet = book->addSheet(L"Sheet1");
if(sheet)
{
sheet->writeStr(2, 1, L"Hello, World !");
sheet->writeNum(3, 1, 1000);
}
book->save(L"example.xls");
book->release();
}
return 0;
}