[Lazarus] Reading a spreadsheet with fpspreadsheet

[Dave Coventry]

If you need a non-Lazarus solution and are competent in Java, then it
may be worth looking at POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) and HSSF
(Horrible Spreadsheet Format).

http://www.javabeat.net/articles/41-apache-poi-reading-excel-sheet-using-java-1.html

I wasn't aware of the existence of fpspreadsheet and will have a look
at it, but POI is under a lot of development and seems very active. I
am on their mailing list.