Reading an Excel file

[Moist]

Hello again,

Is it possible to use Autoit to read a .xls file without actually opening Excel? I only want to read its contents of a file saved on a server. I don't intend to write anything on it. I've see the UDF _Excel_RangeRead but I'm guessing that only works on opened documents.

Thanks.

[water]

There are UDFs available to create Excel files but I'm not aware of an UDF to read Excel files.
If you have Excel installed, I suggest to use the Excel UDF and open the workbooks in read-only mode.

[Moist]

58 minutes ago, water said:

There are UDFs available to create Excel files but I'm not aware of an UDF to read Excel files.
If you have Excel installed, I suggest to use the Excel UDF and open the workbooks in read-only mode.

Yeah, thought so. I guess I will be using .csv files then. Thanks

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@Moist

If you are going to read a .csv file, then you could consider to use _FileReadToArray() with your separator char (; or , or @TAB...)