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MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program
Mark Tyler's Spreadsheet Program.
The source code suite also contains other example programs that use this library, such as command line tools to allow scripts to access the API. I deliberately designed it this way so that data can be extracted and read by any modern spreadsheet program on any operating system without requiring mtCellEdit. Over the years I have been frustrated by binary and XML formats that make data only accessible via a single program (or by me wasting time manually converting each file, or by me writing a file format conversion program).
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