Voltaic314 / ExcelFormulaParser

A very early stages attempt at trying to use OOP concepts to help interact with Excel Formulas
MIT License
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Cell Reference parsing needs an overhaul - absolute cell reference support and named ranges support #3

Open Voltaic314 opened 6 months ago

Voltaic314 commented 6 months ago

We need to add support for Absolute Cell References, and then also Named Ranges (basically cell aliases) in our formula parsing. Luckily, these wouldn't be extremely difficult to handle.

ABS Refs:

Named Ranges

All in all, these changes will take significant testing to get right but are crucial in handling complex formula parsing, else this library will not be useful to its target audience. It needs to be done before it can be effectively used. But at least for most formulas this library works well enough.

hvbtup commented 1 month ago

I think that for many use-cases it would be sufficient to just ignore the $ signs.