[scilab-Users] Error code opening xls file

[Samuel Gougeon]

----- Message d'origine -----
De : Marco Marchi - Gmail
Date : 15/03/2010 17:11:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm writing a script to process an Excel file.
> During file opening with library function xls_open I obtain an error 
> message:
>
>  [fd, sst, sheetname, sheetpos] = 
> xls_open('c:/documenti/sistemi/leggi/iso_sistemi/utilities/calls.xls');
>                                                                                              
> !--error 999
>
> XLS file I'm trying to open inside Scilab is 38 Mbyte: is it too much 
> big for this function? I used xls_open in order to open smallest xls 
> file with no problem.
Did you try with readxls() (that uses xls_read() ) ?
By the way, the help page tells that there are some restrictions
about the file format:
"Warning only BIFF8 Excel files (last Excel file version) are handled"
To be checked, or converted.

HTH
Samuel