Request: Support for xls

sestegra / spreadsheet_decoder

Spreadsheet Decoder is a library for decoding spreadsheets for ODS and XLSX files.

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Request: Support for xls #13

Closed hsynaksu closed 5 years ago

hsynaksu commented 5 years ago

Hi there, Great library! I am using it to parse xlsx files with no problem. But .xls files give the following error: Unhandled Exception: FormatException: Could not find End of Central Directory Record

As far as I understand this is because library does not support xls files yet. If that is so, is there any plans for support in the future?

sestegra commented 5 years ago

XLS is closed binary format.

As current implementation is only using XML format and XLS isn't described as an open standard, there is no plan to support this format.