- Update to version 2.6.1:
* io-2.6.1 is meant to polish a few prominent bugs introduced unfortunately
in the coarse of code overhaul for io-2.6.0.
* Bug fixes:
- xlsopen: reinstate default OCT interface (reason that on systems w/o
Java or with non-matching Java bit width "no spreadsheet I/O support
was found" for .ods and .xlsx).
- ods*.m wrapper functions: properly implement output args (bug #58045).
- Wrong concatenation of indices when reading .xlsx with OCT interface.
* Still no fix for the XML functions :-(
- Update to version 2.6.0:
* Bug fixes:
- Fixed some concealed bugs in getxmlattv.m & __OXS_spsh2oct__.m.
- dbfwrite.m: made more robust as regards heterogeneous data columns, just
skip them rather than abort.
Also fixed writing just one data row (bug #57669)
- read_namelist.m: fixed a minor typo.
- OCT interface: properly return negative values formatted as "()"
(bug #57812).
- The XML functions xmlread.m and xmlwrite.m have been (temporarily)
removed (see bug #58004). Once that bug is fixed these functions will be
reinstated.
* Code improvements:
- Most user-visible spreadsheet I/O functions have been adapted such that:
* All supported spreadsheet formats / file types can be read and written
with the xls*.m functions. So it isn't required anymore to read
.xlsx/.xls with xlsread, and .ods with odsread, etc.
* The ods*.m functions still exist but now are mere wrappers for the
corresponding xls*.m functions. They are (softly) deprecated but will
be retained for a while (to at least somewhere in 2022 ?).
As they are mere wrappers they have all the functionality of the
corresponding xls*.m and previous ods*.m functions.
This has been done to cut down on code maintenance; it wasn't really
manageable to keep two separate function sets in sync that behind the
scenes provided close to 95 % overlapping internal functionality. The
choice for keeping xls*.m rather than ods*.m functions was made for
Matlab compatibility - that has no ods*.m functions.
- The xlsread.m help text now contains an extensive explanation of
spreadsheet I/O interfaces.
- The message indicating which interfaces were found is now silenced but
can be shown by adding an argument "verbose" to xlsread / xlsopen /
xlswrite. See the help for xlsread, xlsopen and xlswrite.
* Other changes
The previously separate READ-ODS.html and READ-XLS.html docs in the doc/
subdirectory have been replaced by a new combined html background document
rewritten from scratch: Spreadsheet-IO-in-Octave.html