==== [](https://travis-ci.org/tfussell/xlnt) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/tfussell/xlnt) [](https://coveralls.io/github/tfussell/xlnt?branch=master) [](https://tfussell.gitbooks.io/xlnt/content/) [](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) ## Introduction xlnt is a modern C++ library for manipulating spreadsheets in memory and reading/writing them from/to XLSX files as described in [ECMA 376 4th edition](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm). The first public release of xlnt version 1.0 was on May 10th, 2017. Current work is focused on increasing compatibility, improving performance, and brainstorming future development goals. For a high-level summary of what you can do with this library, see [the feature list](https://tfussell.gitbooks.io/xlnt/content/docs/introduction/Features.html). Contributions are welcome in the form of pull requests or discussions on [the repository's Issues page](https://github.com/tfussell/xlnt/issues). ## Example Including xlnt in your project, creating a new spreadsheet, and saving it as "example.xlsx" ```c++ #include int main() { xlnt::workbook wb; xlnt::worksheet ws = wb.active_sheet(); ws.cell("A1").value(5); ws.cell("B2").value("string data"); ws.cell("C3").formula("=RAND()"); ws.merge_cells("C3:C4"); ws.freeze_panes("B2"); wb.save("example.xlsx"); return 0; } // compile with -std=c++14 -Ixlnt/include -lxlnt ``` ## Documentation Documentation for the current release of xlnt is available [here](https://tfussell.gitbooks.io/xlnt/content/). ## Building xlnt - Using vcpkg You can download and install xlnt using the [vcpkg](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg) dependency manager: git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git cd vcpkg ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh ./vcpkg integrate install ./vcpkg install xlnt The xlnt port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg) on the vcpkg repository. ## License xlnt is released to the public for free under the terms of the MIT License. See [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/tfussell/xlnt/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for the full text of the license and the licenses of xlnt's third-party dependencies. [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/tfussell/xlnt/blob/master/LICENSE.md) should be distributed alongside any assemblies that use xlnt in source or compiled form.