[GRASS-dev] Excel read support

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
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> However, why should we implement this in GRASS when OGR already supports
> Excel file reading (via freexl) ? Can't you just use db.in.ogr ?

Good point, I wasn't aware of that:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_xls.html
 (GDAL/OGR >= 1.9.0)

So it won't be needed once the distros provide OGR with FreeXL support.

Markus