Ruby Read Excel File Xlsx

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Ruby read excel file xlsx.

Below are code samples for reading current ooxml excel files using rubyxl roo creek and simple xlsx reader. What i needed was a library that would read excel rows in streams. I am trying to read an excel spreadsheet file with ruby but it is not reading the content of the file. Difference between read xlsx and read excel functions.

I have samples for reading xlsx files using each of the above libraries in the linked github project. Roo implements read access for all common spreadsheet types. This is my script. Roo helped with reading excel files and we can do this by.

The result for reading the xlsx file with the two functions is same. I created a quick and dirty benchmark comparing the four libraries that can read xlsx files in the above table. I also found a simple gem called simple xlsx reader that was easy to use and had everything i needed. This project contains sample code for reading excel files with different ruby libraries xlsx file examples.

If you need to read large excel files you may want to compare the performance between the different libraries. Some googling brought me to the ruby gems roo and write xlsx. Book spreadsheet open myexcel xls. End it is giving me the following.

While it is capable of properly parsing the entire ooxml structure its current main emphasis is on reading files produced by ms excel making minor modifications to them and saving them to be opened again while preserving as much of the structure as possible. Xlsx roo spreadsheet open file path xlsx roo excelx new xlsx spreadsheet xlsx sheet sheet number once we have access to a desired excel file we can get whatever data we need from it. When i called simplexlsxreader open file path memory consumption would go to 2gb and it would stay that way until the garbage collector cleaned it. Sheet1 book worksheet 0 sheet1 each do row puts row inspect.