New Opcodes - %SETCELL

[John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Hans & Barb.

How about some useful built-ins for things we can't do today?   

Like  being able to  update an Excel spread sheet's cells?   

If I have a .XLS Excel spread sheet on the IFS,   I would like to
be able to read/update cells in it.     I was reading how easy it
is to this in Lotus Script.    How about helping us with API's in 
conjunction with new built-in functions where I could read
(say)  Column A of a spread sheet(maybe Part Number), 
and Update  Column C (maybe on-hand quantity).??

Maybe a %GETCELL and %SETCELL ??   

We need some NEW functionality in addition to 
giving us numerous new ways of being able to 
do things we could already do.    

IFS Stream File affinity for example.    

Lotus Notes .NSF file support would be 
right up there also.  Reading/Updating it?

It should be easy with the CF's in place Right?

Just dreaming I guess.


John Carr


 
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