diff --git a/index/ex/excel_writer/excel_writer-18.0.0.toml b/index/ex/excel_writer/excel_writer-18.0.0.toml index 74913cb7..879d6cdd 100644 --- a/index/ex/excel_writer/excel_writer-18.0.0.toml +++ b/index/ex/excel_writer/excel_writer-18.0.0.toml @@ -4,20 +4,50 @@ version = "18.0.0" authors = ["Gautier de Montmollin"] website = "https://excel-writer.sourceforge.io/" licenses = "MIT" -maintainers = ["alejandro@mosteo.com"] +maintainers = ["gdemont@hotmail.com"] maintainers-logins = ["mosteo", "zertovitch"] project-files = ["excel_out_gnat.gpr"] executables = ["excel_out_demo"] tags = ["excel", "spreadsheet", "xls", "csv"] long-description = """ +![Excel Writer logo](https://excel-writer.sourceforge.io/ew_logo_no_shadow.png) + Excel_Out is a standalone, portable Ada package for writing Excel spreadsheets with basic formattings, easily and programmatically. -Enables the automatic production of reports. +* Enables the automatic production of reports +* Fast: 50 sheets per second, with 10,000 data cells each on a slow 1.66 GHz computer +* No interaction needed with Excel or MS Office +* Unconditionally portable (*) +* Endian-neutral +* Object oriented +* Task safe +* Pure Ada 95 (nothing compiler/system specific), can be used in projects in Ada 95, Ada 2005, Ada 2012 and later versions of the language +* Floating-point hardware neutral: no IEEE hardware required +* Tests and demos included +* Includes a CSV parser with related tools. +* Free, open-source +___ +(*) within limits of compiler's provided integer types and target architecture capacity. -No interaction needed with Excel or MS Office. +The creation of an Excel file is as simple as this small procedure: -Includes a CSV parser with related tools. +```ada +with Excel_Out; + +procedure Small_Demo is + xl : Excel_Out.Excel_Out_File; +begin + xl.Create ("small.xls"); + xl.Put_Line ("This is a small demo for Excel_Out"); + for row in 3 .. 8 loop + for column in 1 .. 8 loop + xl.Write (row, column, row * 1000 + column); + end loop; + end loop; + xl.Close; +end Small_Demo; +``` """ [origin]