[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51512] of-io: Missing or wrong types when using xlsread with OCT interface

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #51512 (project octave):

Markus,

The OOXML specs are here:
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm

Looking through it I think several regexps in __OCT_xlsx2oct__.m may have to
be reconsidered. Once done there's no need for helper subfunctions. I know
what to do but the next weeks I lack time, hopefully I can pick that up after
my vacation, or maybe you or someone else will beat me to it.
Now that I mention: I remember to have struggled a bit with it before; at the
time I found Excel itself wasn't always complying to the ECMA rules and
Libre-/OpenOffice still less.

I agree LibreOffice is a bit lacking. You may want to file an upstream bug
report about setting the result type of boolean formulas to "numeric". The
folks at LibreOffice seem relatively responsive.


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